American unexceptionalism [electronic resource] : the everyman and the suburban novel after 9/11 / Kathy Knapp.
Material type: 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
- 813/.609 23
- PS374.S82 K63 2014
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.
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