Teaching a Large Course On Contemporary Fiction

My intention was, not to survey political novels, or the ones I like best, novels that meet some ahistorical standard of excellence, but consider those are in one way another central American bourgeois culture, and help students understand culture through their reading novels. . adopted an approach might be unsympa­thetically described as building up order knock them down. But think strategy is warranted. Looking closely at what's good these almost invariably means following insight into difficulty living a life on terms offered by our society. (Many novelists would probably let it go "living life," since they take America given, mimesis capitalism always there.) This is, put crudely, problem posed each novel, often revealingly. Most hint solutions, here's where fall apart. They displace politics offer personal anarchist pre-industrial remedies for human sorrows rooted advanced capitalist, industrial