This book analyzes a significant group of contemporary historical fictions that represent damaging, even catastrophic times for people and communities; written
This volume argues that contemporary narratives evince a great deal of resilience by promoting an ecology of attention based on poetic options that develop an e
A comet in the mounting firmament of third-world, non-white, female writers, Edwidge Danticat stands apart. An accomplished trilingual children's and YA author,
Narrative plays a central role for individual and collective lives - this insight has arguably only grown at a time of multiple social and cultural challenges i
The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction explores fiction written over the last thirty years in the context of the profound political, histor