Power Plays in Transnational American Fiction : Gender, Race, and Genre.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

King, Daniel Robert, editor.

Maxey, Ruth, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2026.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2027.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

Inspired by the career of Judie Newman, a genuinely ground-breaking scholar in the fields of U.S. and postcolonial literature, this book moves beyond strict national or genre boundaries in its approach to American literature and cultural production.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Reimagining Transnational American Fiction Ruth Maxey and Daniel Robert King

Part 1 Gender

2 "What Happens to All Lost Girls?": Unpacking the Shirley Jackson Renaissance Bernice M. Murphy

3 "Soil Is Memory Made Flesh": Maggie O'Farrell's Transatlantic Families in This Must Be the Place Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson

4 Exploring Power and Vulnerability in Saul Bellow's "Leaving the Yellow House" Jamal Assadi

Part 2 Race

5 Updating Updike: John Updike, Chinua Achebe, and the Transnational Struggle with Modernity Yoav Fromer

6 The Traumascapes of Detective Fiction Cynthia S. Hamilton

7 Epistolary Power: Letters from the Intersections of Race, Sex, and Class in Alice Walker's The Color Purple Sue Norton

8 "The Story of North America Turned Inside Out": Bharati Mukherjee's The Holder of the World Claire Chambers

Part 3 Genre

9 Nineteenth-Century Literature Machines Graham Thompson

10 Voyages into Imperial Space: The First American Narratives of Space Travel David Seed

11 What's Happening Here? Serious Times in Mid-Thirties Fiction Kasia Boddy

12 Runaway Aliens: Adapting Ted Chiang across the Canada-US Border Gillian Roberts

Contributors

Index

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ISBN:

9798765125250

9798765125267

OCLC:

1577547642