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A Body of Individuals

Lee, Sue-Im, 1969-

A Body of Individuals The Paradox of Community in Contemporary Fiction / [electronic resource] : Sue-Im Lee. - Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2009. - 1 online resource (ix, 196 p. ) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-191) and index.

What ails the individual : community cure in Toni Morrison's Jazz and Paradise -- "We are not the world" : global community, universalism, and Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange -- Unlike any other : shoring up the human community in Richard Powers's Galatea 2.2 and Plowing the dark -- Motion in stasis : impossible community in fictions of Lydia Davis and Lynne Tillman -- Community as multi-party game : private language in David Markson's Wittgenstein's mistress.

9780814271612 0814271618




Communities in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century


Electronic books.

PS374.C586 / L44 2009

813/.5409353