This study provides an interdisciplinary examination of contemporary American writing using the example of New York City. The book challenges the simplified view that postmodernism ended modernist critique and left political opposition.
This study provides an interdisciplinary examination of contemporary American writing using the example of New York City. The book challenges the simp...
Aims to provide evidence of the way in which the literature of the 1990s is constantly engaging in questions of memory and history and the representation of time in the present day. Included are essays on key texts of the 1990s, from Graham Swift's "Last Orders" to Jane Smiley's "A Thousand Acres".
Aims to provide evidence of the way in which the literature of the 1990s is constantly engaging in questions of memory and history and the representat...