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Jonathan Lethem is the first full-length study dedicated to the work of an exciting, genre-busting contemporary writer with an increasingly high profile in American literature. Examining all of LethemOCOs novels, as well as a number of his short fictions, essays and critical works, this study shows how the authorOCOs prolific output, his restlessness and his desire always to be subverting literary forms and genres, are consistent with his interest in subcultural identities. The human need to break off into small groupings, subcultures or miniature utopias is mirrored in the critical tendency to enforce generic boundaries. To break down the boundaries between genres, then, is partly to make a nonsense of critical distinctions between 'high' and 'low' literature, and partly to reflect the wider need to recognise difference, to appreciate that other people, no matter how outlandish and alien they may appear, share similar desires, experiences and problems. With this in mind, James Peacock argues that LethemOCOs experiments with genre are not merely games or elaborate literary jokes, but ethical necessities, particularly when viewed in the light of the losses and traumas that shadow al

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Author

James Peacock; UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780719082672

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Collections, Literary Fiction