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Moran, Alexander James Paul. "Cultural reproduction in contemporary American fiction." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7683/.

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This thesis traces the ways in which David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, Michael Chabon, Jennifer Egan, and Colson Whitehead react against the historical, institutional, and formal limits imposed upon contemporary fiction and culture. It argues that in order to counteract such constraints, they embrace and co-opt older forms and values as enabling for their fiction. To map these processes and relationships, I read these five writers as engaging with and reflective of the concept of cultural reproduction. Building largely from Raymond Williams’s definitions, the lens of cultural reproductio
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Elliott, Mary Jane. "Transmigratory subjectivity in contemporary latina fiction /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9315.

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Merry, Hannah Kathryn. "Fictional representations of dissociative identity disorder in contemporary American fiction." Thesis, Keele University, 2017. http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/3564/.

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The representation of mental health disorders and syndromes has increased in contemporary literature, film and television. Characters with disorders and syndromes such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, autism and Asperger’s syndrome, Tourette’s syndrome, and dissociative identity disorder are common, leading to an increased critical engagement with these fictional texts. This thesis examines the representation of dissociative identity disorder (DID) in contemporary American fiction since 1994, concentrating on a small selection of texts: the novels Set This House in Order (2003) and Fight Clu
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Dorling, Alan. "Experimental forms in contemporary fiction." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1985. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13310/.

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Concerned with developments in contemporary innovative fiction Experimental Forms in Contemporary Fiction locates 'post- Modernist' writing largely within a North American context. William Burroughs, Ronald Sukenick, Donald Barthelme, Ishmael Reed, Robert Coover and Steve Katz are identified as the exemplary post-Modernist figures; their favoured techniques --a combination of cancellation and erasure, fragmentation and discontinuity, game and play--express an indeterminancy of meaning which places post-Modernist writing at some distance from the writing of contemporary figures like Vladimir Na
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Sanchez, Maria Ruth Noriega. "Magic realism in contemporary American women's fiction." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2001. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3502/.

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The aim of the study is to illustrate the importance of magic realism in American women's fiction in the late twentieth century. The term magic realism, which has traditionally been associated with Latin American men's writing, has been known by different, and often contradictory, definitions. It may be argued that, properly defined, it can be a valid term to describe a number of characteristics common to a corpus of work, and can be considered as an aesthetic category different from others such as Surrealism or Fantastic literature, with which it has often been compared. Furthermore, magic re
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Gillan, Lindsey. "Encountering theory : readings in contemporary American fiction." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285082.

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This thesis gathers four American fiction writers from the group labelled as blank fiction writers during the 1980s - Lynne Tillman, Kathy Acker, Joel Rose and Catherine Texier - to suggest that their work does more than represent the flat, stunned prose attributed to blank fiction. Rather, their simple, streetwise yet often lyrical language is politically engaged, debating profound questions about the nature of identity, both of the indi vidual and of the text. The writing, while superficially transparent, is illusory, reflecting the belief that meaning is contextual: this has wide-reaching i
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Sacks, Michelle Tamara. "Apocalypse and elegy in contemporary american fiction." Thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6724.

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In this dissertation, the use of apocalypse and elegy in contemporary American literature has been explored in an attempt to draw some conclusions about America's complex twenty-first century consciousness. I have selected the millennial novels of Joyce Carol Oates (Blonde), Don DeLillo (Underworld), and Philip Roth (American Pastoral), since all three, written at the century's end, are at once apocalyptic and elegiac in tone, and comprise a useful trilogy tor giving voice to the fracturedness of the American experience. My analysis of the texts traces apocalyptic moments in the novels -- mome
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Shishkin, Timur. "Marginalized Characters in Contemporary American Short Fiction." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/297.

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The focus of the present research work is the contemporary American short stories that bring up issues of compulsory norm and the conflict between marginalized characters and their environment. This research was based on those short stories that seemed to represent the idea of being "different" in the most complex and multilayered way, and its goal was to unfold new aspects of the conflict between "normal" and "abnormal"/"different". Variations of norm as well as diversity within the marginalized raise a number of questions about the reasons for their inability to coexist peacefully. The close
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McFarlane, Fiona Elizabeth. "Nostalgia as literary strategy in contemporary American fiction." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.614330.

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Mason, Francis Andrew. "Narrative and postmodernism : politics and contemporary American fiction." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386656.

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Carr, Emily Rose. "The feminine sublime in violent contemporary American fiction." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2017. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/efd4dac129001f33b1dc1f977eeb0e2cba3a3616799a4315d31fcdce1e5187f5/1284088/EMBARGO_1YR_Carr_2017_The_faminine_sublime_in_violent_contemporary.pdf.

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Barbara Freeman’s feminine sublime theory was radical upon its publication in The Feminine Sublime: Gender and Excess in Women’s Fiction (1995). Challenging centuries of male-dominated and male-focussed sublime theory, her crafting of the feminine sublime established a unique sublime experience that was based upon female perspective and participation. Contrasting from the dominating, male-authored masculine sublime, which prescribes that the male subject of the sublime neutralises the excessive other that they encounter as part of the experience, Freeman’s feminine sublime eradicates the prese
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Assella, Shashikala Muthumal. "Contemporary South Asian American women's fiction : the "difference"." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2015. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29786/.

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This thesis critically explores the “difference” of contemporary South Asian American women’s fiction and their fictional narratives of women’s lives, away from the ethnic postcolonial depictions of diasporic women. The selected novels of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Amulya Malladi, Bharti Kirchner, V.V. Ganeshananthan, Nayomi Munaweera, Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi and Shaila Abdullah studied here interrogate the depiction of South Asian women characters both within diasporic American locations and in South Asian settings. These writers establish individual identities that defy homogeneity assigned to
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Thomas, Rhys O. "Liminal identity in contemporary American television science fiction." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2014. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/56854/.

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This thesis examines the foregrounding of a particular type of liminal human protagonist in contemporary American television Science Fiction. These protagonists, which I have termed the ‘unliving,’ exist in-between the realms of life and death, simultaneously both alive and dead whilst occupying an indistinct middleground. I examine how the liminal nature of these protagonists has been used as a means of exploring various aspects of personal identity during the early years of the twenty-first century. Developing anthropologist Victor Witter Turner’s work, in which he argued for the universal o
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Boddy, Kasia Jane. "The form of the contemporary American short story." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.281926.

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Kalisch, Michael. "The politics of male friendship in contemporary American fiction." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/290210.

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Exploring the traffic between U.S. literary culture and political philosophy, this thesis surveys works by a range of leading male contemporary American novelists alongside the recent resurgent interest in friendship as a political concept. Long exiled from serious political philosophy, friendship returned as a crucial term in late twentieth-century communitarian debates about citizenship. Friendship also became integral to continental philosophy's exploration of the ontology of democracy, and, in a different guise, to histories of sexuality. Across these disciplines, friendship has been invok
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Rorabaugh, Peter W. "The Sermonic Urge: Postsecular Sermons in Contemporary American Fiction." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/75.

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Contemporary American novels over the last forty years have developed a unique orientation toward religious and spiritual rhetoric that can best be understood within the multidisciplinary concept of the postsecular. In the morally-tinged discourse of their characters, several esteemed American novelists (John Updike, Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, and Cormac McCarthy) since 1970 have used sermons or sermon-like artifacts to convey postsecular attitudes and motivations. These postsecular sermons express systems of belief that are hybrid, exploratory, and confessional in nature. Through r
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Strecker, William. "Ecologies of knowledge : narrative ecology in contemporary American fiction." Virtual Press, 2000. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1177991.

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In the 1980s and 1990s, many scientifically cognizant young novelists turned away from the physics-based tropes of entropy and chaos and chose biological concepts of order, complexity, and self-organization as their dominant metaphors. This dissertation focuses on three novels published between 1991 and 1996 that replace the notion of the encyclopedia as a closed system and model new narrative ecologies grounded in the tenets of the emergent science of complex systems. Thus, Richard Powers's The Gold-Bug Variations (1991) explores the marriage of bottom-up self-organizing systems and top-down
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Wilson, Natalie. "Bodily subversions : the corporeal grotesque in contemporary American fiction." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.406328.

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Gregoriou, Christiana. "The poetics of deviance in contemporary American crime fiction." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2003. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11826/.

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The study directly explores the three aspects of deviance that contemporary American crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. I conduct case studies into crime series by James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell and investigate the way in which the novelists correspondingly challenge linguistic norms, the boundaries of acceptable social behaviour, and the relevant generic conventions. The study particularly explores the nature of the figurative language employed to portray the criminal mind in Patterson, and additionally examines the moral justification of crim
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Annesley, James. "Blank fiction : culture, consumption and the contemporary American novel." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321347.

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Donner, Mathieu. "Contagion and the subject in contemporary American speculative fiction." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40336/.

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This thesis explores the relationship between the representation of contagion and those it affects offered by contemporary American speculative fiction and the ways in which this representative model has and continues to inform our understanding of real and actual pandemics. Over the past decade, the success of texts centred on such figures as the vampire, the werewolf and the zombie has triggered a return of contagion to the forefront of the American popular fictional imagination. Though this renewed fascination coincides with the emergence of new global biological threats, it also draws part
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Pearson, Laura Anne. "Humanimals and transculturalism in contemporary North American graphic fiction." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/16196/.

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This thesis is situated at the intersection of animal, comics, and cultural studies, a wide area of investigation in which graphic fiction has rarely interacted with the different theoretical and cultural paradigms that inform animal-human relationships of both the present and the past. Comics and graphic novels are probably as popular as they have ever been, and are being put to distinctive uses in our increasingly visual age. The funny animal and the beast fable are often cited as historical precursors to the “humanimal” hybrids we find in contemporary print and web-based versions of the seq
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Kim, Junyon. "Re-imagining diaspora, reclaiming home in contemporary African-American fiction /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3147823.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 223-239). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Jessee, Sharon A. "A monotony of fine weather imagined worlds in contemporary American fiction /." Access abstract and link to full text, 1986. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.library.utulsa.edu/dissertations/fullcit/8616607.

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Graham-Bertolini, Alison. "Home of the Brave: Vigilante Women in Contemporary American Fiction." LSU, 2009. http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04142009-191748/.

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Vigilante literature tells the stories of individuals who rectify injustice by taking matters into their own hands. Examples of this plot can be found in American literature dating from colonial times, when settlers made an effort to preserve their moral code without the aid of an established justice system. The popularity of this theme finds further currency in tales of the frontier and the Wild West, and more recently, Hollywood has capitalized on its popularity by drawing from the myth of American pioneer culture and the theme of the lone avenger. This project identifies an analogous theme
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Polley, Jason S. "Acts of justice : risk and representation in contemporary American fiction." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102824.

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Spectacles of justice preoccupy contemporary American culture. Legal culture---including the Watergate trials, the Lewinsky scandal, and OJ Simpson's trial for alleged murder---assumes a central place in the American imaginary. Configurations of the law are not limited to media reportage and televised docudramas. Nor are arbitrations confined to law faculties and the spaces of formal courts. Working through depictions of due process in different ways and in different zones, contemporary American writers point up the prevalence of legality in everyday life. Whether on college campuses, in TV st
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Shaw, Kristian. "A unified scene? : cosmopolitanism in contemporary British and American fiction." Thesis, Keele University, 2016. http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/3261/.

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The twenty-first century has been marked by an unprecedented intensification in globalisation, transnational mobility and technological change. However, the resulting global interconnectedness reveals the continuation of deeply unequal power structures in world society, often exposing rather than ameliorating cultural imbalances. The emergent globalised condition requires a form of narrative representation that accurately reflects the experience of existing as a constituent member of an interconnected global community. This study of cosmopolitanism in contemporary British and American fiction
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Potkalitsky, Nicolas J. "Refracted Realism and the Ethical Dominant in Contemporary American Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1563283222402333.

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Hall, Rebecca Thomas Ron. "The fantastic and related subgenres in three contemporary novels." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/4190.

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Evans, Richard. "Queering Dixie: The challenging of social norms in contemporary gay fiction." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26370.

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This thesis inquires into how three contemporary gay and lesbian Southern authors under the age of 35 challenge and question the established notions of gender, class, sexuality, and religion in the American South. The three authors under consideration are Christopher Rice ( A Density of Souls), Poppy Z. Brite (Drawing Blood), and Julia Watts (Finding H. F.). By examining the works of a gay man from New Orleans (an urban area), a bisexual woman originally from Georgia now living in New Orleans (urban/rural spheres), and a lesbian from small-town Kentucky (rural space), respectively, the notion
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McAlpine, Kirstie Alexandra. "Eloquent ruptures : silence as strategy in contemporary North American women's fiction." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264424.

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Stirrup, David Francis. "Deritualization and community : representations of death in contemporary Native American fiction." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.399626.

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Harker, Ben. "Critical oppositions : realism, postmodernism and the reception of contemporary American fiction." Thesis, University of York, 2000. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10885/.

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Lederer, Robert Clarke. "Rise of the curator : archiving the self in contemporary American fiction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10667.

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Concurrent with a bloom of interest in the archive within academic discourse, an intense cultural fascination with museums, archives, and memorials to the past has flourished within the United States. The ascendency of digital technologies has contributed to and magnified this “turn” by popularising and habituating the archive as a personal memory tool, a key mechanism through which the self is negotiated and fashioned. This dissertation identifies a sustained exploration of the personal archive and its place in contemporary life by American novelists in the twenty-first century. Drawing on th
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Hermanson, Scott. "The simulation of nature contemporary American fiction in an environmental context /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=ucin991838727.

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Mitchell, Shamika Ann. "The Multicultural Megalopolis: African-American Subjectivity and Identity in Contemporary Harlem Fiction." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/167490.

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English<br>Ph.D.<br>The central aim of this study is to explore what I term urban ethnic subjectivity, that is, the subjectivity of ethnic urbanites. Of all the ethnic groups in the United States, the majority of African Americans had their origins in the rural countryside, but they later migrated to cities. Although urban living had its advantages, it was soon realized that it did not resolve the matters of institutional racism, discrimination and poverty. As a result, the subjectivity of urban African Americans is uniquely influenced by their cosmopolitan identities. New York City's ethnic c
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Hebble, Susan Morrison. "Playing grown-up : adulthood in the contemporary American novel /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9841205.

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Gove, Ben. "Cruising culture : notions of promiscuity in contemporary American gay male writing." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390094.

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Tillman, Aaron. "Magical American Jew : the enigma of difference in contemporary Jewish American short fiction and film /." View online ; access limited to URI, 2009. http://0-digitalcommons.uri.edu.helin.uri.edu/dissertations/AAI3368007.

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Hermanson, Scott Douglas. "The Simulation of Nature: Contemporary Fiction in an Environmental Context." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin991838727.

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Nuñez, Gabriela. "Investigating La Frontera : transnational space in contemporary Chicana/o and Mexican detective fiction /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2007. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3286241.

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Svetich, Kella de Castro. "Flesh and blood : colonial trauma and abjection in contemporary Filipino American fiction /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2005. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Kloeckner, Christian [Verfasser]. "The Writing of Terrorism: Contemporary American Fiction and Maurice Blanchot / Christian Kloeckner." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1123420033/34.

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Casero, Eric E. "Mind Against Matter: Isolating Consciousness in American Fiction, 1980-2010." UKnowledge, 2016. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/38.

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Mind Against Matter uses cognitive literary theory to explore a set of contemporary texts that emphasize characters’ feelings of alienation and isolation from their social and material worlds. Focusing on novels by Nicholson Baker and David Markson, short stories by David Foster Wallace, and the film The Truman Show, I consider how these texts focus on characters’ individual, subjective experiences while deemphasizing their physical environments and social contexts. I argue that by privileging subjectivity in this way, these texts portray their characters as independent, to varying degrees, fr
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Stirling, D. Grant. "The narrativity of narcissism cultural contexts of contemporary American metafiction /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0011/NQ27324.pdf.

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Pepper, Andrew. "Unites states of detection : race, ethnicity and the contemporary American crime novel." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363371.

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There has been much debate over the nature of relations between the different ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Some argue that the United States is a genuinely multi-cultural nation where the opportunity for universal socio-political and economic advancement still exists. Others, however, paint America as a nation fundamentally split down a black'/'white' middle, despite the recent arrival of vast numbers of immigrants from Asia and Latin America and maintain that racially-determined discrimination has irrevocably undermined its pluralist ambitions. It is my belief that neither p
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Henninger, Katherine. "Ordering the façade : photography and the politics of representation in contemporary Southern women's fiction /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Miotto, Isabel <1985&gt. "I'm more than a piece in their Games Contemporary American Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/2348.

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Thomas, Glen Joseph. "Plots and plotters : narrative, desire, and ideology in contemporary American historiographic metafiction /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2001. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16176.pdf.

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Jacobi, Kara Elizabeth. ""They Will Invent What They Need to Survive": Narrating Trauma in Contemporary Ethnic American Women's Fiction." Scholarly Repository, 2009. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/229.

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"'They Will Invent What They Need to Survive': Narrating Trauma in Contemporary Ethnic American Women's Fiction" analyzes novels by Octavia Butler, Phyllis Alesia Perry, Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, Alice Walker, and Julia Alvarez through the lens of contemporary theories of trauma, tracing the ways in which survivors struggle to construct narratives that contain and make sense of their experiences. Many of the major theorists of trauma studies emphasize the impossibility of re-capturing traumatic events through creating narratives even while recognizing that the survivor's need to tell her story p
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