Part I: Before 1980
Part II: From new realisms to postmodernism
"This American Life"
"Dirty Realisms"
Only wor(l)ds
Magnifying reality, multiplying genre
Part III: Becoming identities
Reinventing character
Racing identity
Engendering narrative
Toward the posthuman
Part IV: What happened to history?
The past is prologue
Tunneling in
Imagining epoch
Another history
Narrating Vietnam
Catastrophe: The Ends of history
Part V: Relations stopping nowhere
The Postnuclear family
The reach of community
From there to here: migration and nation
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The American novel now : reading contemporary American fiction since 1980 by Patrick O'Donnell. ISBN 9781405167550. Published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
