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How to Read a Moment : The American Novel and the Crisis of the Present / Mathias Nilges.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nilges, Mathias, author.
- Series:
- FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.) ; Volume 38.
- FlashPoints Series ; Volume 38
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Contemporary, The, in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "This book examines works by authors like Don DeLillo, Jennifer Egan, Charles Yu, and Colson Whitehead to show that the contemporary American novel offers new ways to make sense of the temporality that governs our contemporary world"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Time Is Now
- The Novel after Tomorrow's Crash
- How to Read the Present
- The Tenses of Race: The Privilege of Contemporaneity and the Unequal Distribution of Presence
- Periodizing the Contemporary: Literary History after Postmodernism.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-4343-7
- OCLC:
- 1242425239
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