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Fictive Fathers in the Contemporary American Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501386008)
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xFictive Fathers in the Contemporary American Novel explores the unstable construction of heteronormative white masculinity in the contemporary United States by focusing on relationships between fathers and their children.
Debra Shostak reads the novels of 18 North American writers publishing in the late 20th and early 21st centuries as allegories of cultural conflict and change within the nuclear family; the authors considered include Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Franzen, John Irving, Jonathan Lethem, Carole Maso, Bobbie Ann Mason, Cormac McCarthy, Claire Messud, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Tim O'Brien, Marilynne Robinson, Philip Roth, Mona Simpson, Jane Smiley, and Anne Tyler. These novelists portray father figures who, often literally or figuratively absent from the family scene, disrupt the familial order and their family members' identities. Shostak's close readings illuminate unexpectedly conservative, even subversive, ideological positions at the heart of these fictions.
Fictive Fatherstraces the eroding myth of paternal authority that sustained a patriarchal model within real American families and their literary representations.
Author: Debra Shostak
ISBN-10: 150138600X
ISBN-13: 9781501386008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 08/26/2021
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d
Debra Shostak reads the novels of 18 North American writers publishing in the late 20th and early 21st centuries as allegories of cultural conflict and change within the nuclear family; the authors considered include Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Franzen, John Irving, Jonathan Lethem, Carole Maso, Bobbie Ann Mason, Cormac McCarthy, Claire Messud, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Tim O'Brien, Marilynne Robinson, Philip Roth, Mona Simpson, Jane Smiley, and Anne Tyler. These novelists portray father figures who, often literally or figuratively absent from the family scene, disrupt the familial order and their family members' identities. Shostak's close readings illuminate unexpectedly conservative, even subversive, ideological positions at the heart of these fictions.
Fictive Fatherstraces the eroding myth of paternal authority that sustained a patriarchal model within real American families and their literary representations.
Author: Debra Shostak
ISBN-10: 150138600X
ISBN-13: 9781501386008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 08/26/2021
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d
By Debra Shostak
xDebra Shostak is Mildred Foss Thompson Professor of English Language and Literature at The College of Wooster, USA. She is the author of Philip Roth-Countertexts, Counterlives (2004) and editor of Philip Roth: American Pastoral, The Human Stain, The Plot Against America (Bloomsbury, 2011).
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