Stranger America : a narrative ethics of exclusion /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Toth, Josh (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Series:Cultural frames, framing culture.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Pt.1. Being withdrawn: Melancholics and specters: between James Weldon Johnson and Alan Crosland
  • Promising intrusion in Nella Larsen's passing
  • Articulations of ambiguity: William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and James McBride
  • Pt.2. Being eaten: Touching Herman Melville's "Bartleby" (and other zombie narratives)
  • Consuming androids in the work of Philip K. Dick
  • The chameleon and the dictator in Woody Allen's Zelig
  • Pt.3. Being given: The autonarratives of Ernest Hemingway (and others)
  • The divinely unshareable self: from Edward Albee to Larry David
  • Bob Dylan's autoplasticity.