American unexceptionalism
Knapp, Kathy, 1960-
American unexceptionalism the everyman and the suburban novel after 9/11 / [electronic resource] : Kathy Knapp. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - The New American Canon : the Iowa series in contemporary literature and culture . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The canonical everyman: Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe novels and the challenge to neoliberal suburbia. -- The assimilated everyman and the business of forgetting: postwar living memorials and the posttraumatic suburb in Chang-Rae Lee's aloft -- How to live: the case for failure in Jonathan Franzen's freedom -- Dead man walking: Philip Roth's engagement with the everyman tradition and the reimagination of middle-class identity -- That's what she said: the everyman in recent suburban fiction by Anne Tyler, Gish Jen, and A.M. Homes.
9781609382513 160938251X
Authors, American--Political and social views.--21st century
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.
Suburban life in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
Electronic books.
PS374.S82 / K63 2014
813/.609
American unexceptionalism the everyman and the suburban novel after 9/11 / [electronic resource] : Kathy Knapp. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - The New American Canon : the Iowa series in contemporary literature and culture . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The canonical everyman: Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe novels and the challenge to neoliberal suburbia. -- The assimilated everyman and the business of forgetting: postwar living memorials and the posttraumatic suburb in Chang-Rae Lee's aloft -- How to live: the case for failure in Jonathan Franzen's freedom -- Dead man walking: Philip Roth's engagement with the everyman tradition and the reimagination of middle-class identity -- That's what she said: the everyman in recent suburban fiction by Anne Tyler, Gish Jen, and A.M. Homes.
9781609382513 160938251X
Authors, American--Political and social views.--21st century
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.
Suburban life in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
Electronic books.
PS374.S82 / K63 2014
813/.609