02992nam 2200625 450 991016033230332120180410201702.00-9977743-5-5(CKB)3710000001025559(MiAaPQ)EBC4923822(EXLCZ)99371000000102555920191224d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe new Midwest a guide to contemporary fiction of the Great Lakes, Great Plains, and Rust Belt /Mark AthitakisFirst edition.Cleveland, Ohio :Belt Publishing,2016.1 online resource0-9977742-8-2 Includes bibliographical references.The latest migrants -- Is this heaven? -- Hard work and other lies of the heartland -- Keep the Midwest weird -- Somehow form a family -- Childhood's end -- Bad places -- The great American/Midwestern novel -- "What about . . .?"In the public imagination, Midwestern literature has not evolved far beyond heartland laborers and hardscrabble immigrants of a century past. But as the region has changed, so, in many ways, has its fiction. In this book, the author explores how shifts in work, class, place, race, and culture has been reflected or ignored by novelists and short story writers. From Marilynne Robinson to Leon Forrest, Toni Morrison to Aleksandar Hemon, Bonnie Jo Campbell to Stewart O?Nan this book is a call to rethink the way we conceive Midwestern fiction, and one that is sure to prompt some new must-have additions to every reading list.American fictionMiddle West21st centuryCriticism and interpretationSocial psychology and literatureMiddle WestIndividualism in literatureLITERARY CRITICISM / AmericanbisacshTRAVEL / United States / MidwestbisacshAmerican fictionfast(OCoLC)fst00807048Individualism in literaturefast(OCoLC)fst00970342Literaturefast(OCoLC)fst00999953Social psychology and literaturefast(OCoLC)fst01122835Middle WestIn literatureMiddle WestfastElectronic books.American fictionCriticism and interpretation.Social psychology and literatureIndividualism in literature.LITERARY CRITICISM / American.TRAVEL / United States / Midwest.American fiction.Individualism in literature.Literature.Social psychology and literature.813/.6Athitakis Mark1248551MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910160332303321The new Midwest2893736UNINA