The contemporary American short-story cycle : the ethnic resonance of genre

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The contemporary American short-story cycle : the ethnic resonance of genre

James Nagel

Louisiana State University Press, c2001

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN 9780807126608

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Essential intellectual background for understanding a venerable literary tradition as it is practiced today The short-story cycle - a literary genre as ancient as A Thousand and One Nights and as modern as James Joyce's Dubliners - has rapidly ascended over the last twenty years to become one of the dominant forms in American fiction. Most scholars and book reviewers, however, lack awareness of the short-story cycle's rich legacy in this country and consistently misconstrue new works of the genre as "novels." James Nagel offers the first systematic history and definition of the story cycle as exemplified in contemporary American fiction, bringing attention to the format's wide appeal among various ethnic groups. Differentiating the cycle from the more tightly unified novel on one side and the less coherent story collection on the other, Nagel examines in detail eight recent manifestations of the short-story cycle genre; Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich; Annie John, by Jamaica Kincaid; Monkeys, by Susan Minot; The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros; The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien; How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, by Julia Alvarez; The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan; and Robert Olen Butler's A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. Written from a variety of ethnic perspectives, these books depict the process of immigration, acculturation, language acquisition, identity formation, and integration of old world values with new. With its concentric as opposed to linear plot development possibilities, the cycle, Nagel shows, lends itself particularly well to exploring these themes, which mirror some of the major issues facing American society today.
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: pbk ISBN 9780807129616

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James Nagel offers the first systematic history and definition of the short-story cycle as exemplified in contemporary American fiction, bringing attention to the format's wide appeal among various ethnic groups. He examines in detail eight recent manifestations of the genre, all praised by critics while uniformly misidentified as novels. Nagel proposes that the short-story cycle, with its concentric as opposed to linear plot development possibilities, lends itself particularly well to exploring themes of ethnic assimilation, which mirror some of the major issues facing American society today.

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