Contemporary Fictions: Essays on American and Postcolonial Narratives

by Judie Newman

Book Overview

What does it mean to be contemporary? To write contemporary fiction? In this major collection of twenty-five essays Newman interrogates the value of the concept of "the contemporary" as a cultural and literary category, exploring novels and short fiction by American and postcolonial writers, including Marilynne Robinson, John Updike, Saul Bellow, Grace Paley, Nadine Gordimer, J. G. Farrell, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Bharati Mukherjee, Peter H eg, Dalia...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781883327
• ISBN13: 9781781883327
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Legenda
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"