ISBN: 9780252070570

In this celebration of contemporary American fiction, Kathryn Hume explores how estrangement from America has shaped the fiction of a literary generation, which she calls the Generation o… More...

In this celebration of contemporary American fiction, Kathryn Hume explores how estrangement from America has shaped the fiction of a literary generation, which she calls the Generation of the Lost Dream.   In breaking down the divisions among standard categories of race, religion, ethnicity, and gender, Hume identifies shared core concerns, values, and techniques among seemingly disparate and unconnected writers including T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ralph Ellison, Russell Banks, Gloria Naylor, Tim O'Brien, Maxine Hong Kingston, Walker Percy, N. Scott Momaday, John Updike, Toni Morrison, William Kennedy, Julia Alvarez, Thomas Pynchon, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Don DeLillo.   Hume explores fictional treatments of the slippage in the immigrant experience between America's promise and its reality. She exposes the political link between contemporary stories of lost innocence and liberalism's inadequacies. She also invites us to look at the literary challenge to scientific materialism in various searches for a spiritual dimension in life. The expansive future promised by the American Dream has been replaced, Hume finds, by a sense of tarnished morality and a melancholy loss of faith in America's exceptionalism. American Dream, American Nightmare examines the differing critiques of America embedded in nearly a hundred novels and points to the source for recovery that appeals to many of the authors.   Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Classics>Lit Studies>Lit Theory & Criticism, University of Illinois Press Core >1<

2002, ISBN: 9780252070570

University of Illinois Press, Taschenbuch, Auflage: Reprint, 376 Seiten, Publiziert: 2002-01-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 0.5 kg, Verkaufsrang: 296035, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorie… More...

University of Illinois Press, Taschenbuch, Auflage: Reprint, 376 Seiten, Publiziert: 2002-01-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 0.5 kg, Verkaufsrang: 296035, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, 20. Jahrhundert, Moderne, Bewegungen & Epochen, Literaturgeschichte & -kritik, Literatur & Fiktion, 21. Jahrhundert, US-amerikanische Literatur, Regionen & Kulturkreise, Politikwissenschaft, Politik & Geschichte, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Featured Categories, Englische Bücher, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_2301, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_0, Arborist Merchandising Root, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_4901, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_0, Special Features Stores, Taschenbücher, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_4201, Format: Illustriert, University of Illinois Press, 2002<

2002, ISBN: 9780252070570

University of Illinois Press, Taschenbuch, Auflage: Reprint, 376 Seiten, Publiziert: 2002-01-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.1 kg, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, 20. Jahrhun… More...

University of Illinois Press, Taschenbuch, Auflage: Reprint, 376 Seiten, Publiziert: 2002-01-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.1 kg, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, 20. Jahrhundert, Moderne, Bewegungen & Epochen, Literaturgeschichte & -kritik, Literatur & Fiktion, 21. Jahrhundert, US-amerikanische Literatur, Regionen & Kulturkreise, Politik & Geschichte, Format: Illustriert, University of Illinois Press, 2002<