Understanding Contemporary American Literature
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Understanding Contemporary American Literature

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Understanding Contemporary American Literature

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Understanding Jennifer Egan is the first book-length study of the novelist, short-story writer, and journalist best known for the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad. Alexander Moran examines each of Egan's varied published works, analyzes how her journalism informs her fiction, excavates her literary and intellectual influences, and considers her place in contemporary fiction.

Moran argues that because Egan's fiction is not easily categorized many of her novels have been underappreciated. He proposes a framework for understanding her writing centered on what it means to have, and to write, an "authentic" experience. In Emerald City, Egan explores the authenticity of touristic experience; in The Invisible Circus, her focus shifts to the authenticity of historical memory; in Look at Me, The Keep, and A Visit from the Goon Squad, she explores the effects of digital technology on how we understand authentic experience. In the concluding chapter, Moran discusses Egan's 2017 novel Manhattan Beach as a text that explores the authenticity of history and genre while resonating with the instability of the present.

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Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781643362267
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Modern Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. UNDERSTANDING JENNIFER EGAN
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CONTENTS
  7. Series Editor’s Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Chapter 1 Understanding Jennifer Egan
  10. Chapter 2 Emerald City
  11. Chapter 3 The Invisible Circus
  12. Chapter 4 Look at Me
  13. Chapter 5 The Keep
  14. Chapter 6 A Visit from the Goon Squad
  15. Chapter 7 Manhattan Beach
  16. Notes
  17. Works Cited
  18. Index
  19. ABOUT THE AUTHOR