Utopia And Terror In Contemporary American Fiction (Routledge Transnational Perspectives On American Literature)

This book examines the quest for/failure of Utopia across a range of contemporary American/transnational fictions in relation to terror and globalization through authors such as Susan Choi, Andr?Dubus, Dalia Sofer, and John Updike. Newman explores topics such as the first American bestseller with a Muslim protagonist, the links between writer and terrorist, the work of Iranian-Jewish Americans, and the relation of race and religion to Utopian thought.

• • Author: Judie Newman
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Nov 10, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 196 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1138813958
• • ISBN-13: 9781138813953