A New Manifestation of American Socially Engaged Fiction
The article addresses a peculiar manifestation of the contemporary American socially engaged novel: the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Using the tools of the New Historicism, the work scrutinizes Ron Childress’ award-winning novel And West is West in an attempt to establish what...
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| description | The article addresses a peculiar manifestation of the contemporary American socially engaged novel: the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Using the tools of the New Historicism, the work scrutinizes Ron Childress’ award-winning novel And West is West in an attempt to establish what it means for a modern work fiction to be socially engaged. Through creative application of Foucault’s discourse analysis intertwined with AnisShivani’s theory of plastic realism, the paper analyses the cultural forces at play in a self-proclaimed novel of social reform. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-087a93ef09b640168d28761db97a5c3f2025-01-06T09:08:38ZengEuropean Association for American StudiesEuropean Journal of American Studies1991-93362021-07-0116210.4000/ejas.17170A New Manifestation of American Socially Engaged FictionMagdalena BazylewiczThe article addresses a peculiar manifestation of the contemporary American socially engaged novel: the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Using the tools of the New Historicism, the work scrutinizes Ron Childress’ award-winning novel And West is West in an attempt to establish what it means for a modern work fiction to be socially engaged. Through creative application of Foucault’s discourse analysis intertwined with AnisShivani’s theory of plastic realism, the paper analyses the cultural forces at play in a self-proclaimed novel of social reform.https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/17170American literatureRon Childresssocially engaged fictionNew Historicism |
| spellingShingle | Magdalena Bazylewicz A New Manifestation of American Socially Engaged Fiction European Journal of American Studies American literature Ron Childress socially engaged fiction New Historicism |
| title | A New Manifestation of American Socially Engaged Fiction |
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