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T1 Past Piff: In the Narrative Garden of Contemporary American Fiction
A1 Colbert, James
AB Working around an extended central analogy that compares themaking of literature to the making of a garden, this article examineshow narratives of a specific type are, and have been, privileged inAmerican fiction and why those narratives have become thin, passionless,and pale. While examining economic factors in publishing andanalyzing specific examples from short story and novel, the resistanceto increasingly non-homogenized and dialectically interrelated worksis explored in light of the irony and enigma it presents: why have writersresisted such change even as that change has created opportunityand yield? The imperative too often underlying the work of Americanwriters —that permanency of identity is the only means to an orderlyexistence— has failed; it is in the narratives where more and differentmodalities of existence encompass greater variety that we have found,and will find, the truly novel in the making of contemporary Americanliterature.
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RD 22-may-2024