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Reconstructing the Family in Contemporary American Fiction

Desmond F. McCarthy

出版	P. Lang, 1997
主題	Literary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / GeneralSocial Science / Anthropology / GeneralSocial Science / Customs & TraditionsSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN	08204230689780820423067
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jO1ZAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

The prevalence of alternative families in contemporary American fiction is significant given the concern and confusion precipitated by the decline in traditional nuclear families in recent decades. John Irving's The World According to Garp, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, and E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime contain compelling utopian depictions of alternative families that are more egalitarian than traditional nuclear families. John Updike's Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux are interesting counterpoints to the optimistic novels of Irving, Walker, and Doctorow. Although Updike depicts the traditional nuclear family as the site of considerable ennui and unhappiness, attempts to flee or reconstruct the family in his novels are staggeringly destructive.