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Michael Chabon's America: Contemporary American Literature


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Michael Chabon's America: Magical Words, Secret Worlds, and Sacred Spaces is the first comprehensive scholarly collection analyzing the work of acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon. At its core, the book demonstrates how Chabon uses a broad range of styles and genres, including detective and comic book fiction and essays and other works of nonfiction, to get at the heart of defining the American experience. As a result, Michael Chabon's America provides context and exploration for understanding the author's work from cultural, historical, and stylistic perspectives by scholars from five continents, revealing Chabon's deep global impact.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781442236042
ISBN-10: 1442236043
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 160 x 249 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield
Seria Contemporary American Literature


Notă biografică

Jesse Kavadlo is professor of English at Maryville University. He is president of the Don DeLillo Society and author of Don DeLillo: Balance at the Edge of Belief (2003). Bob Batchelor is James Pedas Professor of Communication and executive director of the James Pedas Communication Center at Thiel College. He is the author or editor of more than twenty books, including John Updike: A Critical Biography (2013) and Gatsby: A Cultural History of the Great American Novel (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013). He is founding editor of the Popular Culture Studies Journal and editor of the Contemporary American Literature series published by Rowman & Littlefield.

Cuprins

Acknowledgements Introduction: Bob Batchelor and Jesse Kavadlo 1: Real Maps of Imaginary Worlds; or, Michael Chabon, Shadowtail ¿ Jesse Kavadlo Chronicling Popular Culture 2: The Dudes Abide: Examining Clinton-Era Identity in Wonder Boys and The Big Lebowski ¿ Bob Batchelor 3: Quentin Tarantino and the Paradox of Popular Culture in Michael Chabon¿s Telegraph Avenue ¿ John Joseph Hess 4: Driving Away: Muscle Cars, Loss, and Unrequited Travels with Chabon ¿ Charli Valdez 5: ¿Guess Who I am Now¿: On Communication and Childhood in Michael Chabon¿s `Lost World¿ Stories ¿ Mike Witcombe Chabon¿s Mysteries: Comics and Genre 6: Comix Remix, or, The Strange Case of Mr. Chabon ¿ Stephen Hock 7: ¿An American Golem:¿ The Necessity of Myth in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ¿ Seth Johnson 8: The Chatter of an African Gray Parrot: The Final Solution as Postmodern Detective Fiction ¿ Marjorie Worthington 9: Genre for Justice: The Final Solution and The Yiddish Policemen¿s Union as Reflections of Golden Age Detective Fiction Texts ¿ Monica Lott Ethnicity, Gender, and Masculinity in Chabon¿s Oeuvre 10: Michael Chabon¿s Gentlemen of the Road and the Rejection of Communal Identity as Heroic Quest ¿ Eric Sandberg 11: Solving the Jewish Case: Metaphorical Detection in Michael Chabon¿s The Final Solution and The Yiddish Policemen¿s Union ¿ Inbar Kaminsky 12: Not Growing Old but Growing Up: Appropriate Masculine Identity in Michael Chabon¿s Wonder Boys ¿ Alex Hobbs 13: Queer Masculinities in The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Manhood for Amateurs ¿ Josef Benson Chabon¿s American Expression 14: Michael Chabon¿s Wonder Boys and Therapeutic Creativity ¿ David McKay Powell 15: American Prowess Deconstructed: Michael Chabon and the Merger of Naturalism and Fantasy ¿ Jake Sudderth 16: ¿Hope Unfulfilled, Not Yet Betrayed¿: Michael Chabon¿s Nostalgia for the Future ¿ Matt Kavanagh Index About the Contributors About the Editors

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Michael Chabon's America: Magical Words, Secret Worlds, and Sacred Spaces is the first comprehensive scholarly collection analyzing the work of acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon. At its core, the book demonstrates how Chabon uses a broad range of styles a...