Hicks Tribes And Dirty Realists

Download or read book Hicks, Tribes and Dirty Realists written by Moshe Kim and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moshe Kim argues that much literary fiction of the 1980s and 90s represents a triumphant, if tortured, return to questions about place and the individual that inspired the works of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Faulkner, and other giants of American literature. Concentrating on the realist bent and regional orientation in contemporary fiction, he discusses in detail the various names by which this fiction has been described, including literary postmodernism, minimalism, Hick Chic, Dirty Realism, ecofeminism, and more. Rebein's clearly written.