American Literature in Transition, 1990–2000 ISBN-13: 9781107136014

ISBN-13: 9781107136014

Binding: Hardcover

Author: Burn, Stephen J.

Details: Written in the shadow of the approaching millennium, American literature in the 1990s was beset by bleak announcements of the end of books, the end of postmodernism, and even the end of literature. Yet, as conservative critics marked the centurys twilight hours by launching elegies for the conventional canon, American writers proved the continuing vitality of their literature by reinvigorating inherited forms, by adopting and adapting emerging technologies to narrative ends, and by finding new voices that had remained outside that canon for too long. By reading 1990s literature in a sequence of shifting contexts – from independent presses to the AIDS crisis, and from angelology to virtual reality – American Literature in Transition, 1990–2000 provides the fullest map yet of the changing shape of a rich and diverse decades literary production. It offers new perspectives on the periods well-known landmarks, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, but also overdue recognition to writers such as Ana Castillo, Evan Dara, Steve Erickson, and Carole Maso.

Release Date: 28-12-2017

Package Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.0 inches

Languages: English

Number Of Pages: 396