A body of individuals : the paradox of community in contemporary fiction / Sue-Im Lee.

Author/creator Lee, Sue-Im, 1969-
Format Book
Publication InfoColumbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2009.
Descriptionix, 196 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents What ails the individual : community cure in Toni Morrison's Jazz and Paradise -- "We are not the world" : global community, universalism, and Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange -- Unlike any other : shoring up the human community in Richard Powers's Galatea 2.2 and Plowing the dark -- Motion in stasis : impossible community in fictions of Lydia Davis and Lynne Tillman -- Community as multi-party game : private language in David Markson's Wittgenstein's mistress.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 181-191) and index.
LCCN 2008048781
ISBN9780814204078 (alk. paper)
ISBN0814204074 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS 374.C586 L44 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold