Wilderness City: The Post-War American Urban Novel from Nelson Algren to John Edger Wideman

by Clontz; Ted L.

• ISBN13: 9780415975506
• ISBN10: 0415975506
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The books seeks to examine changes in the U.S.--literary, aesthetic, and social--as represented in novels set in an environment where the gamut of ethnicities and their often differing views of literature and culture that make up the U.S. are more generally found, using the theories and concepts of Mikhail Bakhtin, particularly his concept of thechronotope, orspacetime.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(20)
Chapter One Nelson Algren's No Exit: The Urban Jail	21	(18)
Chapter Two Ellison and Pynchon: The Chaotic and Fabulous Cities	39	(24)
Chapter Three Continuing to Redefine the Urban Time-Space	63	(24)
Chapter Four Wilderness City	87	(22)
Chapter Five Re-imagining the Postcolonial City	109	(24)
Chapter Six John Edgar Wideman: Bringing It All Back Home	133	(22)
Conclusion	155	(2)
Notes	157	(4)
Bibliography	161	(6)
Index	167