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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524869803321

Autore

Lee Sue-Im <1969->

Titolo

A Body of Individuals : The Paradox of Community in Contemporary Fiction / / Sue-Im Lee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

0-8142-7161-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 196 p. )

Disciplina

813/.5409353

Soggetti

Communities in literature

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-191) and index.

Nota di contenuto

What ails the individual : community cure in Toni Morrison's Jazz and Paradise -- "We are not the world" : global community, universalism, and Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange -- Unlike any other : shoring up the human community in Richard Powers's Galatea 2.2 and Plowing the dark -- Motion in stasis : impossible community in fictions of Lydia Davis and Lynne Tillman -- Community as multi-party game : private language in David Markson's Wittgenstein's mistress.