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Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914
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ISBN: 1405100648 9781405100649 1405195533 047099682X 9786610850839 1405165057 178268381X 1280850833 1405178310 Year: 2005 Volume: 35 Publisher: Oxford : Blackwell,


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Hard-boiled masculinities
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ISBN: 9780816644339 Year: 2005 Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,

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Strips the veneer of the tough guy in modern American culture. The author offers a complex account of how and why hard-boiled masculinity emerged during an unsettled time of increased urbanization and tenuous peace, and traces the changes in its cultural conception.


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Consuming silences : how we read authors who don't publish
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ISBN: 0820326992 Year: 2005 Publisher: Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press,


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Twenty-first century fiction : readings, essays, conversations
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Year: 2005 Publisher: Heidelberg : Winter,

Ethical diversions : the post-holocaust narratives of Pynchon, Abish, DeLillo, and Spiegelman
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ISBN: 0415971675 1299867839 0415867142 0203958322 1135466327 1135466394 9781135466329 9781299867833 9780203958322 9780415971676 Year: 2005 Publisher: London ; New York, NY : Routledge,

Remembering the past in contemporary African American fiction
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ISBN: 0807856479 0807829803 080787678X 9780807876787 9780807829806 9780807856475 9798890877819 Year: 2005 Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,

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With close readings of more than twenty novels by writers including Ernest Gaines, Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, Gloria Naylor, and John Edgar Wideman, Keith Byerman examines the trend among African American novelists of the late twentieth century to write about black history rather than about their own present. Employing cultural criticism and trauma theory, Byerman frames these works as survivor narratives that rewrite the grand American narrative of individual achievement and the march of democracy. The choice to write historical narratives, he says, must be understood historicall

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