Outside, America : the temporal turn in contemporary American fiction / Hikaru Fujii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Journey to the end of the father: Battlefield of masculinity in the Mosquito Coast -- The American traveler's love and solitude: The atlas, or William T. Vollmann's Pragmatics of the double -- Nietzsche, crime fiction, and question of masculinity in Denis Johnson's Already dead: a California gothic -- Where the tide rises and ebbs: Power, becoming, and America in Steve Erickson's Rubicon Beach -- A man with a green memory: War, cinema, and freedom in Stephen Wright's Meditations in green -- Time and again: The outside and the narrative pragmatics in The body artist WWDD (What Would Disney Do)?: Cinematic field and narrative act in Richard Powers's Prisoner's dilemma -- Writing from a different now: Question of ahistorical time in contemporary Los Angeles fiction.

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The idea of the ""outside"" as a space of freedom has always been central in the literature of the United States. This concept still remains active in contemporary American fiction; however, its function is being significantly changed. Outside, America argues that, among contemporary American novelists, a shift of focus to the temporal dimension is taking place. No longer a spatial movement, the quest for the outside now seeks to reach the idea of time as a force of difference, a la Deleuze, by which the current subjectivity is transformed. In other words, the concept is taking a ""temporal tu.

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