Hicks, tribes & dirty realists : American fiction after postmodernism /
Robert Rebein argues that much literary fiction of the 1980s and 90s represents a triumphant, if tortured, return to questions about place and the individual that inspired the works of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Faulkner, and other giants of American literature. Concentrating on the realist bent an...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
The University Press of Kentucky
2009.
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| Edition: | Paperback edition. |
| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt130hsdf |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. After Postmodernism; 2. Minimalism and Its Discontents; 3. Dirty Realism; 4. Hick Chic, or, the White Trash Aesthetic
- 5. Return of the Native; 6. New West, or, the Borderlands; 7. Tribes and Breeds, Coyotes and Curanderas; 8. The White Prison Novel as Bildungsroman; Conclusion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.