Popular Genres and Interiority
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22910080 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Hoberek (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 567-578 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Amerikastudien/American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0340-2827 • E-ISSN: 2625-2155 |
| Publisher | Universitatverlag WINTER Heidelberg (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.33675/amst/2019/4/8 |
| OpenAlex | W3095339303 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
This essay argues that twenty-first-century novelists have turned to popular genre models for, among other things, alternatives to twentieth-century literary realism's dominant concern with characters' interiority. Beginning with the anticipation of this development in Toni Morrison's 1987 novel Beloved and focusing on two more recent works of fiction-Helen Oyeyemi's 2009 White Is for Witching and James Hannaham's 2015 Delicious Foods-the essay addresses the particular strategy whereby novelists attribute interiority to nonhuman objects in order to explore new strategies for addressing the social and economic concerns that were once central to realist fiction.
Aesthetics · Art · History · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philippine History and Culture · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |