American unexceptionalism [electronic resource] : the everyman and the suburban novel after 9/11 / Kathy Knapp.

By:

Knapp, Kathy, 1960-

Contributor(s):

Project Muse

Material type: Text

TextSeries: The New American Canon : the Iowa series in contemporary literature and culture | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.)ISBN:

9781609382513
160938251X

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Electronic books.

DDC classification:

813/.609 23

LOC classification:

PS374.S82 K63 2014

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Contents:

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.

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