Contents
Preface: Driving through Babel
Culture/Narrative/Power
The Story of Deconstruction
Theories of Desire
The Narrative Turn in Minority Writing
Rituals of Change: Ethnography on the Border
Feminism and the Politics of Community
Conclusion: Literature without Masterpieces |
"The best available account
of narrative in its many current dimensions."
Eric J. Sundquist, Northwestern University
"It's seldom that I read
something that strikes me as being truly important, something that marks
the next necessary step in the progress of our thinking. Clayton
has written such a book."
Michael Ryan, Northeastern University
"the best brief introduction
I know to American prose of the last twenty-five years."
Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh
Choice: Outstanding
Academic Book for 1995
The Pleasures of Babel
acquaints the layperson and the expert alike with the creative and intellectual
achievements of America's multicultural society. Proclaiming the
present as "a great period of writing," Clayton relates novels from the
1970s through the 1990s to the latest developments in literary theory.
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New York: Oxford University Press, 1993
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