Novel Arguments: Reading Innovative American Fiction.

Abstract

Preface Acknowledgements 1. The idea of innovative fiction 2. How to succeed: Donald Barthelme's The Dead Father 3. 'A man's story is his gris-gris': cultural slavery, literary emancipation and Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada 4. Narrative inscription, history and the reader in Robert Coover's The Public Burning 5. 'One's image of oneself': Structured identity in Walter Abish's How German Is It 6. The quest for love and the writing of female desire in Kathy Acker's Don Quixote Conclusion Notes Index.