Paul Auster

225 Pages·2008·0.978 MB·English

by  Mark Brown

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Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
Series editors:
Nahem Yousaf and Sharon Monteith
Also available
Douglas Coupland AndrewTate
Philip Roth David Brauner
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Copyright © Mark Brown 2007
The right of Mark Brown to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by
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ISBN 978 0 7190 7397 7 paperback
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Contents
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4 Acknowledgements xi
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Afterword 192
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6 Bibliography and filmography 194
7 Index 201
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Series editors’ foreword
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4 thirty years, and provides critical evaluations of established, emerging and
5 critically neglected writers – mixing the canonical with the unexpected. It
6 explores notions of the contemporary and analyses current and developing
7 modes of representation with a focus on individual writers and their work. The
series seeks to reflect both the growing body of academic research in the field,
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and the increasing prevalence of contemporary American and Canadian fiction
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on programmes of study in institutions of higher education around the world.
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Central to the series is a concern that each book should argue a stimulating
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thesis, rather than provide an introductory survey, and that each contemporary
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writer will be examined across the trajectory of their literary production. A
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variety of critical tools and literary and interdisciplinary approaches are
4 encouraged to illuminate the ways in which a particular writer contributes to,
5 and helps readers rethink, the North American literary and cultural landscape
6 in a global context.
7 Central to debates about the field of contemporary fiction is its role in
8 interrogating ideas of national exceptionalism and transnationalism. This
9 series matches the multivocality of contemporary writing with wide-ranging
30111 and detailed analysis. Contributors examine the drama of the nation from the
perspectives of writers who are members of established and new immigrant
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groups, writers who consider themselves on the nation’s margins as well
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as those who chronicle middle America. National labels are the subject of
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vociferous debate and including American and Canadian writers in the same
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series is not to flatten the differences between them but to acknowledge that
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literary traditions and tensions are cross-cultural and that North American
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writers often explore and expose precisely these tensions. The series recognises
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8 social and geo-political, artistic and theoretical, and that contemporary fiction
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40111 genres in which they have made their mark alongside writers whose aesthetic