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Boxall, Peter.

Twenty-first-century fiction : = a critical introduction /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Twenty-first-century fiction :/ Peter Boxall.
Reminder of title:	a critical introduction /
Author:	Boxall, Peter.
Published:	Cambridge ;Cambridge University Press, : 2013.,
Description:	x, 266 p. :ill. ; : 23 cm.;
Subject:	American fiction - History and criticism. - 21st century -
ISBN:	9780521187299 (pbk.) :

Twenty-first-century fiction : = a critical introduction /
Boxall, Peter.

Twenty-first-century fiction :a critical introduction /Peter Boxall. - Cambridge ;Cambridge University Press,2013. - x, 266 p. :ill. ;23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-258) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Introduction: twenty-first century fiction; 1. Late culture in the early twenty-first century; 2. Inheriting the past: literature and historical memory in the twenty-first century; 3. The limits of the human; 4. A curious knot: terrorism, radicalism, the avant-garde; 5. Sovereignty, democracy, globalization; Bibliography; Index.

"The widespread use of electronic communication at the dawn of the twenty-first century has created a global context for our interactions, transforming the ways we relate to the world and to one another. This critical introduction reads the fiction of the past decade as a response to our contemporary predicament - one that draws on new cultural and technological developments to challenge established notions of democracy, humanity, and national and global sovereignty. Peter Boxall traces formal and thematic similarities in the novels of contemporary writers including Don DeLillo, Margaret Atwood, J. M. Coetzee, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, W. G. Sebald and Philip Roth, as well as David Mitchell, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dave Eggers, Ali Smith, Amy Waldman and Roberto Bolaño. In doing so, Boxall maps new territory for scholars, students and interested readers of today's literature by exploring how these authors narrate shared cultural life in the new century"--

ISBN: 9780521187299 (pbk.) :NT830

LCCN: 2013000014Subjects--Topical Terms:

931294
American fiction
--History and criticism.--21st century

LC Class. No.: PR889 / .B69 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.9209

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