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Issue 2.1 Previous Issues

Diverse Suburbias

Rowena Clarke January 12, 2013 1 Comment A Gesture Life A. M. Holmes Aloft Chang-rae Lee contemporary fiction David Lynch demographics Gary Shteyngart immigrant incorporation in Suburban America Ira Levin Jack Finney Jeffrey Eugenides Jhumpa Lahiri Junot Diaz literature Native Speaker New York Peter Weir Rick Moody suburbia suburbs Tom Perotta twenty-first-century American fiction Westchester

Rowena Clarke Since the nineteen fifties, when suburban living began to establish itself as the new norm, representations of suburbia in American culture have…

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Issue 1.3 Previous Issues

Authentic Violence: The Case for Autofiction

Heidi James-Dunbar August 1, 2012 No Comments Augusten Burroughs authenticity autofiction diarists Elfriede Jelinek Golem Italo Calvino Jean Genet Jewish folklore life writing Lionel Trilling Manic Street Preachers Marina Warner Michael Serres narrative Rachel Cusk Rick Moody Serge Doubrovsky testimony The Piano Teacher

The recent surge in the publication and study of Life-Writing in its varied forms has largely been supported by the academic community, spawning dedicated research centres in academic institutions, journals and conferences and it…

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