{"product_id":"fictive-fathers-in-the-contemporary-american-novel-paperback","title":"Fictive Fathers in the Contemporary American Novel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDebra Shostak\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFictive Fathers in the Contemporary American Novel\u003c\/i\u003e explores the unstable construction of heteronormative white masculinity in the contemporary United States by focusing on relationships between fathers and their children. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDebra Shostak reads the novels of 18 North American writers publishing in the late 20th and early 21st centuries as allegories of cultural conflict and change within the nuclear family; the authors considered include Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Franzen, John Irving, Jonathan Lethem, Carole Maso, Bobbie Ann Mason, Cormac McCarthy, Claire Messud, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Tim O'Brien, Marilynne Robinson, Philip Roth, Mona Simpson, Jane Smiley, and Anne Tyler. These novelists portray father figures who, often literally or figuratively absent from the family scene, disrupt the familial order and their family members' identities. Shostak's close readings illuminate unexpectedly conservative, even subversive, ideological positions at the heart of these fictions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFictive Fathers \u003c\/i\u003etraces the eroding myth of paternal authority that sustained a patriarchal model within real American families and their literary representations.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDebra Shostak\u003c\/b\u003e is Mildred Foss Thompson Professor of English Language and Literature at The College of Wooster, USA. She is the author of \u003ci\u003ePhilip Roth-Countertexts, Counterlives\u003c\/i\u003e (2004) and editor of \u003ci\u003ePhilip Roth: American Pastoral, The Human Stain, The Plot Against America\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2011).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 26, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51785672753440,"sku":"9781501386008","price":80.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a4203538d98095a6ce7677878bc9613c.webp?v=1780618347","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/fictive-fathers-in-the-contemporary-american-novel-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}