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New York Fictions

Modernity, Postmodernism, The New Modern

Peter Brooker author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:14th Nov '95

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In this original study, Peter Brooker takes issue with the simplified opposition of postmodernism to modernism in accounts of the modern period. Instead, he follows the course of modernity in the spectacular example of New York, to reveal the complexities of both modernist and postmodern responses to the city.

Brooker's study refers us to the fiction of Doctorow, Don DeLillo and Toni Morrison and especially to the new urban `ethnic' writing. Here the voice of creative dissent and cultural hybridity expresses the best in a tradition of Amerian newness; this Peter Brooker calls the `new modern'. The text is an important contribution to contemporary debates on modernism and postmodernism, providing a thorough interdisciplinary study of new American writing within the socio-economic context of New York City and will be of great interest to students of American Studies, Cultural Studies and Literature.

"...engaging, well researched and carefully written account...Brooker has produced a sound and subtle study of the history and culture of a still important city."

American Studies

"Brooker's work is a genuinely useful intervention in a sometimes mystifying debate, and it should prove invaluable to anybody involved or interested in America, Cultural or Literary Studies."

American Studies

ISBN: 9780582099548

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 470g

256 pages