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Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-first Century

Limon, John

Published by Bloomsbury USA Academic (2022)

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Escape, Escapism, Escapology (Paperback)

Professor John Limon

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, New York (2022)

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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 escapefrom the commodified present, from directionless history, from moral deathat a time of inescapable globalization. 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. John Limon traces the American answer to that question in the writings of some of the most important authors of the last two decadesChabon, Diaz, Foer, Eggers, Donoghue, Groff, Ward, Saunders, and Whitehead, among othersand finds that it always involves the faux utopian freedom and pseudo-messianic salvation of childhood.When contemporary novelists feature actual historical escape, pervasively from slavery or Nazism, it appears in their novels as escape envy or escape nostalgiaas if globalization like slavery or Nazism could be escaped in a direction, from this place to another. Thus the closing of the world frontier inspires a mirror messianism and utopianism that in US novels can only be rendered as a performative, momentary, chiasmic relationship between precocious kids and their ludic guardians. "In a major contribution to American studies, John Limon identifies and explores the central theme of American fiction of the first two decades of the 21st century: escapism"-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781501391101

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