Postmodern Suburban Spaces [electronic resource] : Philosophy, Ethics, and Community in Post-War American Fiction / by Joseph George.

George, Joseph.
Postmodern Suburban Spaces
EK/2609
Erişim Adresi
Link
ISBN
9783319410067
Yer Numarası
EK/2609
Yazar
George, Joseph.
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2016.
Yayın Bilgisi
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Fiziksel Niteleme
IX, 206 p. online resource.
İçindekiler Notu
Introduction Nowhere to Now Here -- Chapter One: Against Fence Thinking -- Chapter Two: My Home is Your Home -- Chapter Three: Domesticated Strangers -- Chapter Four: American Means Being Whatever You Want -- Conclusion: The Second Suburban Century -- Works Cited. .
Özet, vb.
This book reevaluates fiction devoted to the postwar American suburb, examining the way these works imagine suburbia as a communal structure designed to advance a particular American identity. Postmodern Suburban Spaces surveys works by both canonical chroniclers of the middle class experience, such as Richard Yates and John Cheever, and those who reflect suburbia’s demographic reality, including Gloria Naylor and Chang-rae Lee, to uncover a surprising reconfiguration of the suburban experience. Tracing major forms of suburban associations – racial divisions, property lines, the family, and ethnic fealty – these works depict a different mode of interaction than the stereotypical white picket fences. Joseph George draws from philosophers such as Emmanuel Levinas and Roberto Esposito to argue that these fictions assert a critical hospitality that frustrates the limited forms of association on which suburbia is based. This fiction, in turn, posits an ethical form of community that comes about when people share space together.
Konu
America __ Literatures.
Literature, Modern __ 20th century.
North American Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Kurum Adı
SpringerLink (Online service)
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