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American Unexceptionalism : The Everyman and the Suburban Novel after 9/11 / Kathy Knapp.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knapp, Kathy, 1960-
- Series:
- New American canon.
- The New American Canon : the Iowa series in contemporary literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors, American--21st century--Political and social views.
- Authors, American.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
- Suburban life in literature.
- American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (228 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City, Iowa : University Of Iowa Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- American Unexceptionalism examines a constellation of post-9/11 novels that revolve around white middle-class male suburbanites, thus following a tradition established by writers such as John Updike and John Cheever. Focusing closely on recent works by Richard Ford, Chang-Rae Lee, Jonathan Franzen, Philip Roth, Anne Tyler, Gish Jen, A. M. Homes, and others, Kathy Knapp demonstrates that these authors revisit this well-trod turf and revive the familiar everyman character in order to reconsider and reshape American middle-class experience in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and their ongoing afterma
- Contents:
- The canonical everyman: Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe novels and the challenge to neoliberal suburbia.
- The assimilated everyman and the business of forgetting: postwar living memorials and the posttraumatic suburb in Chang-Rae Lee's aloft
- How to live: the case for failure in Jonathan Franzen's freedom
- Dead man walking: Philip Roth's engagement with the everyman tradition and the reimagination of middle-class identity
- That's what she said: the everyman in recent suburban fiction by Anne Tyler, Gish Jen, and A.M. Homes.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781609382513
- 160938251X
- OCLC:
- 881243901
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