Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century Limon John
Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century Limon John Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century identifies and explores what…
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Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century Limon John
Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century identifies and explores what has emerged as perhaps the central theme of 21st-century American fiction: the desire to escape-from the commodified present, from directionless history, from moral death-at a time of inescapable globalization. John Limon traces the American answer to that question in the writings of some of the most important authors of the last two decades-Chabon, Diaz, Foer, Eggers, Donoghue, Groff, Ward, Saunders, and Whitehead, among others-and finds that it always involves the faux utopian freedom and pseudo-messianic salvation of childhood.When contemporary novelists feature actual The driving question is how to find an alternative to the world within the world, at a time when utopian and messianic ideals have lost their power to compel belief.