UID:
edocfu_9960117696602883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xxi, 326 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-108-24479-3
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1-108-24651-6
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1-108-23485-2
Serie:
American literature in transition
Inhalt:
History has not been kind to the 1980s. The decade is often associated with absurd fashion choices, neo-Conservatism in the Reagan/Bush years, the AIDS crisis, Wall Street ethics, and uninspired television, film, and music. Yet the literature of the 1980s is undeniably rich and lasting. American Literature in Transition, 1980-1990 seeks to frame some of the decade's greatest achievements such as Toni Morrison's monumental novel Beloved and to consider some of the trends that began in the 1980s and developed thereafter, including the origins of the graphic novel, prison literature, and the opening of multiculturalism vis-à-vis the 'canon wars'. This volume argues not only for the importance of 1980s American literature, but also for its centrality in understanding trends and trajectories in all contemporary literature against the broader background of culture. This volume serves as both an introduction and a deep consideration of the literary culture of our most maligned decade.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018).
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Cover -- Half title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology: The 1980s: Significant Political, Cultural, and Literary Events by Year -- Introduction: The Screen and the Page -- Part I Themes -- 1 Magic, Meet Realism: World Mythology on American Soil -- 2 Youth Culture on the Skids: Generation X and Brat Pack Fiction -- 3 Womanism -- 4 Revisiting Masculinity -- 5 The Ghosts of History I: The Holocaust Reexamined -- 6 The Ghosts of History II: Narrative Authority and Contemporaneous Social Subjectivity in the Neo-Slave Narrative -- 7 The Enduring Literary Legacy of the Vietnam War -- Part II Genres and Formats -- 8 "How Did I Get Here?": Roth, Updike, and the Embarrassment of Riches -- 9 A Prison Nation and Freedom Dreams: 1980s Literature of Incarceration -- 10 The Horror!: The Stephen King Industry -- 11 Poetry, Language, and History in the 1980s -- 12 "An Imaginary Story": Comic Books and Graphic Novels in the 1980s -- 13 Pop Operas, or Broadway Sells T-Shirts! -- 14 Working-Class Fiction and "Dirty Realism" -- 15 The Surge of Latino Lit -- Part III Institutions -- 16 The Culture Wars and the Canon Debate -- 17 "We Are the World, We Are the Children": 1980s World Literature Bears Witness to US-American Exceptionalism and Imperialism -- 18 Literature in an Age of Plague: The AIDS Epidemic -- 19 Libertarian Fictions: Violence and the Free-Market Radicalism of 1980s Literature -- 20 Neoconservative Ascendancy, the Reagan Age, and Literature's Response -- 21 The Literature of High Finance in the 1980s -- 22 From Nuclear Fear to Shades of Gray: The End of the Cold War -- Index.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-108-41560-1
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-108-40169-4
Sprache:
Englisch
