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Coming of Age in Contemporary American Fiction by Kenneth Millard, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Kenneth Millard

Current price: $214.99
Coming of Age in Contemporary American Fiction by Kenneth Millard, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Coming of Age in Contemporary American Fiction by Kenneth Millard, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Coming of Age in Contemporary American Fiction by Kenneth Millard, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Kenneth Millard

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This book explores the ways in which a range of recent American novelists have handled the genre of the 'coming-of-age' novel, or the Bildungsroman. Novels of this genre characteristically dramatise the vicissitudes of growing up and the trials and tribulations of young adulthood, oftenpresented through depictions of immediate family relationships and other social structures. This book considers a variety of different American cultures (in terms of race, class and gender) and a range of contemporary coming-of-age novels, so that aesthetic judgements about the fiction might be madein the context of the social history that fiction represents. A series of questions are asked:* Does the coming-of-age moment in these novels coincide with an interpretation of the 'fall' of America?* What kind of national commentary does it therefore facilitate?* Is the Bildungsroman a quintessentially American genre?* What can it usefully tell us aboutcontemporary American culture? Although the focus is on the conte | Coming of Age in Contemporary American Fiction by Kenneth Millard, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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