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      • Stacey Olster, Stony Brook University, State University of New York
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      29 June 2017
      09 June 2017
      ISBN:
      9781107278813
      9781107049215
      9781107627178
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107278813
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 266 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.39kg, 266 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature after 1945
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    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature after 1945
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    The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction explores fiction written over the last thirty years in the context of the profound political, historical, and cultural changes that have distinguished the contemporary period. Focusing on both established and emerging writers - and with chapters devoted to the American historical novel, regional realism, the American political novel, the end of the Cold War and globalization, 9/11, borderlands and border identities, race, and the legacy of postmodern aesthetics - this Introduction locates contemporary American fiction at the intersection of a specific time and long-standing traditions. In the process, it investigates the entire concept of what constitutes an “American” author while exploring the vexed, yet resilient, nature of what the concept of home has come to signify in so much writing today. This wide-ranging study will be invaluable to students, instructors, and general readers alike.

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