Contested Terrain: Suburban Fiction and U.S. Regionalism, 1945-2020 (New American Canon) - Tapa blanda

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Wilhite, Keith

 
9781609388577: Contested Terrain: Suburban Fiction and U.S. Regionalism, 1945-2020 (New American Canon)
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ISBN 10: 1609388577 ISBN 13: 9781609388577
Editorial: University of Iowa Press, 2022

Sinopsis

Contested Terrain explores suburban literature between two moments of domestic crisis: the housing shortage that gave rise to the modern era of suburbanization after World War II, and the mortgage defaults and housing foreclosures that precipitated the Great Recession. Moving away from scholarship that highlights the alienating, placeless quality of suburbia, Wilhite argues that we should reimagine suburban literature as part of a long literary tradition of U.S. regional writing that connects the isolation and exclusivity of the domestic realm to the expansionist ideologies of U.S. nationalism and the environmental imperialism of urban sprawl. Wilhite produces new, unexpected readings of works by Sinclair Lewis, Lorraine Hansberry, Richard Yates, Patricia Highsmith, Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, Jeffrey Eugenides, Chang-rae Lee, Richard Ford, Jung Yun, and Patrick Flanery. Contested Terrain demonstrates how postwar suburban nation-building ushered in an informal geography that recalibrated notions of national identity, democratic citizenship, and domestic security to the scale of the single-family home.

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Acerca del autor

Keith Wilhite is associate professor of English at Siena College. He is editor of The City Since 9/11: Literature, Film, Television. Wilhite lives in Albany, New York.

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Editorial
University of Iowa Press
Año de publicación
2022
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1609388577
ISBN 13 
9781609388577
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Número de páginas
310
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