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Coming of age in contemporary American fiction
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ISBN: 9780748621736 9780748629541 9780748621743 0748621733 0748629548 9780748629817 0748629815 9780748651740 0748651748 0748621741 9786610833986 6610833982 128083398X 9781280833984 0748621741 9780748622672 0748622675 9780748622689 0748622683 1780343213 9781780343211 Year: 2007 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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This book explores the ways in which a range of recent American novelists have handled the genre of the coming-of-age novel. Novels of this genre characteristically dramatise the vicissitudes of growing up and the trials and tribulations of young adulthood.


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Travel and dislocation in contemporary American fiction
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ISBN: 9780415995825 0415995825 9780203802472 9781136626982 9781136627026 9781136627033 9780415744140 0415744148 Year: 2012 Volume: 18 Publisher: New York London Routledge

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"This book offers a critical study and analysis of American fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It focuses on novels that 'go outward' literally and metaphorically, and it concentrates on narratives that take place mainly away from the US's geographical borders. Varvogli draws on current theories of travel globalization and post-national studies, and proposes a dynamic model that will enable scholars to approach contemporary American fiction and assess recent changes and continuities. Concentrating on work by Philip Caputo, Dave Eggers, Norman Rush and Russell Banks, the book proposes that American literature's engagement with Africa has shifted and needs to be approached using new methodologies. Novels by Amy Tan, Garrison Keillor, Jonathan Safran Foer and Dave Eggers are examined in the context of travel and globalization, and works by Chang-rae Lee, Ethan Canin, Dinaw Mengestu and Jhumpa Lahiri are used as examples of the changing face of the American immigrant novel, and the changing meaning of national belonging."--Provided by publisher.

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