A Body of Individuals : The Paradox of Community in Contemporary Fiction /
"Why are some versions of the collective "we" admired and desired while other versions are scorned and feared? A Body of Individuals: The Paradox of Community in Contemporary Fiction examines the conflict over the collective "we" through discourses of community. In the disco...
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- What ails the individual : community cure in Toni Morrison's Jazz and Paradise
- "We are not the world" : global community, universalism, and Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange
- Unlike any other : shoring up the human community in Richard Powers's Galatea 2.2 and Plowing the dark
- Motion in stasis : impossible community in fictions of Lydia Davis and Lynne Tillman
- Community as multi-party game : private language in David Markson's Wittgenstein's mistress.