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The Post-Noir Novel: Pulp Genre, Alienation, and the Turn from Postmodernism in Contemporary American Fiction.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Post-Noir Novel: Pulp Genre, Alienation, and the Turn from Postmodernism in Contemporary American Fiction./
Author:	Lota, Kenneth Jude.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	244 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-01, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-01A.
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27832905
ISBN:	9798607360429

The Post-Noir Novel: Pulp Genre, Alienation, and the Turn from Postmodernism in Contemporary American Fiction.
Lota, Kenneth Jude.

The Post-Noir Novel: Pulp Genre, Alienation, and the Turn from Postmodernism in Contemporary American Fiction. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 244 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-01, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation intervenes in critical debates about the aesthetic and ethical character of the contemporary literary moment by providing an in-depth case study of the evolving function of genre in the aftermath of postmodernism. It does so by examining the adoption and reinvention of the style, tropes, and themes of 1930s/40s hard-boiled crime fiction and film noir in a group of contemporary novels published between 1999 and 2013. The crux of the argument is that contemporary, post-postmodern writers turn to the noir tradition because it reflects a widespread sense of social alienation - of the estrangement of the individual from other people, from society as a whole, and even from oneself. In their reworkings of the genre, however, these contemporary authors seek ways of escaping that alienation and producing narratives of re-integration.The dissertation is divided into four chapters, each of which engages a theme appropriated from the classic noir period. The first chapter focuses on Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn and Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist, two quasi-hard-boiled-detective novels that explore their protagonists' mental states through a focus on the relationship between language and knowledge. The second chapter traces the deconstruction of the hard-boiled male archetype along the lines of sexuality and race in Megan Abbott's The Song Is You and Mat Johnson's graphic novel Incognegro. The third chapter analyzes the role of communications technology in Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge and Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl, comparing classic noir's technological anxieties to contemporary concerns about the Internet. The fourth chapter turns to Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union and China Mieville's The City & the City to explore the significance of the city as a noir environment in contemporary literature. Overall, the dissertation offers one of the first thorough, systematic investigations into just what it means for contemporary writers to inhabit popular genres as a way of moving beyond postmodernism.

ISBN: 9798607360429Subjects--Topical Terms:

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American literature.
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Contemporary literature

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