Abandoning hope in American fiction of the 1980s : catalogues of gothic catastrophe
Part of : Γράμμα : περιοδικό θεωρίας και κριτικής ; Vol.16, No.1, 2008, pages 273-289
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Illness, death, and catastrophe
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Taking as examples selected gothic works of recent American fiction—Gerald Vizenor's Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart (1978; 1990); Patricia Highsmith's Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes (1987) and Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead (1991) — this essay demonstrates how such books Actively accelerate destructive social and economic forces and tip them over into figurations of disaster, in an attempt to liberate the paradoxically productive potential of despair.
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Revisiting crisis / reflecting on conflict: American literary interpretations from World War II to Ground Zero.Περιέχει βιβλιογραφία
