Utopia and terror in contemporary American fiction / / Judie Newman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811052703321
• Autore: Newman Judie
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-136-77487-4; 1-138-81395-8; 0-203-55597-X; 1-136-77480-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (195 pages)
• Collana: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature ; ; 21
• Disciplina: 813/.609372
• Soggetti: Utopias in literature; American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism; Dystopias in literature; Terror in literature; Fantasy in literature; Transnationalism in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. Rotten with perfection : Kim Edwards, The secrets of a fire king -- 3. Fiction and the Unabomber : Susan Choi, A person of interest -- 4. Blowback : Andre Dubus III, House of sand and fog -- 5. Falling woman : Andre Dubus III, The garden of last days -- 6. Pictures from a revolution : Dalia Sofer, The Septembers of Shiraz -- 7. Updike's many worlds : local and global in Toward the end of time -- 8. The Black Atlantic as dystopia : Bernardine Evaristo's Blonde roots -- 9. Disaster utopias : Chitra Divakaruni, One amazing thing.