Wilderness City

The Post-War American Urban Novel from Nelson Algren to John Edger Wideman
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-415-80307-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 284 g

Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

The books seeks to examine changes in the U.S.--literary, aesthetic, and social--as represented in novels set in an environment where the gamut of ethnicities and their often differing views of literature and culture that make up the U.S. are more generally found, using the theories and concepts of Mikhail Bakhtin, particularly his concept of the chronotope, or spacetime.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clontz, Ted

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Nelson Algren's No Exit: The Urban Jail Chapter 2 Ellison and Pynchon: The Chaotic and Fabulous Cities Chapter 3 Continuing to Redefine the Urban Time-Space Chapter 4 Wilderness City Chapter 5 Re-imagining the Postcolonial City Chapter 6 John Edgar Wideman: Bringing It All Back Home Conclusion Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ted Clontz visiting lecture in English at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan