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Debra Shostak - Fictive Fathers in the Contemporary American Novel, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Fictive Fathers in the Contemporary American Novel

Av Debra Shostak

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Fictive Fathers in the Contemporary American Novel explores the unstable construction of heteronormative white masculinity in the contemporary United States by focusing on relationships between fathers and their children. Debra Shostak reads the novels of 18 North American writers publishing in the late 20th and early 21st centuries as allegories of cultural conflict and change within the nuclear family; the authors considered include Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Franzen, John Irving, Jonathan Lethem, Carole Maso, Bobbie Ann Mason, Cormac McCarthy, Claire Messud, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Tim O'Brien, Marilynne Robinson, Philip Roth, Mona Simpson, Jane Smiley, and Anne Tyler. These novelists portray father figures who, often literally or figuratively absent from the family scene, disrupt the familial order and their family members' identities. Shostak's close readings illuminate unexpectedly conservative, even subversive, ideological positions at the heart of these fictions.Fictive Fathers traces the eroding myth of paternal authority that sustained a patriarchal model within real American families and their literary representations.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-08-26
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x undefined mm
  • Vikt: 395 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 288
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • ISBN: 9781501386008
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Debra Shostak is Mildred Foss Thompson Professor of English Language and Literature at The College of Wooster, USA. She is the author of Philip Roth—Countertexts, Counterlives (2004) and editor of Philip Roth: American Pastoral, The Human Stain, The Plot Against America (Bloomsbury, 2011).

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What does it mean to be a father? What does it mean to be a part of a family? In Fictive Fathers, Debra Shostak exposes the fantasy of the American middle-class family as it gives way to the demands of the 21st century. This richly nuanced study of generational and gendered familial dynamics paints a provocative portrait of the shifting if often unsteady repositioning of patriarchal authority in response to the changing social and political landscape of American culture. In doing so, Shostak redefines the shape and scaffolding of the American family, exposing both the limitations and the seductions of the myth of the family in a culture that welcomes and at the same time resists such a re-envisioning of gender roles and the authority of the father.

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