{"product_id":"outside-america-the-temporal-turn-in-contemporary-american-fiction-9781628925364","title":"Outside, America: The Temporal Turn in Contemporary American Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Hikaru Fujii\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 turn.\" \u003cbr\u003eDiscussing eight novelists, including Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, Paul Theroux, and Annie Proulx, each of whose works describe forces of given identities-masculine identity, historical temporality, and power, etc.-which block quests for the outside, Fujii shows how the outside in these texts ceases to be a spatial idea. With due attention to critical and social contexts, the book aims to reveal a profound shift in contemporary American fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45085631414423,"sku":"9781628925364","price":4956.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781628925364.webp?v=1767142847","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/outside-america-the-temporal-turn-in-contemporary-american-fiction-9781628925364","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}