America's Barbarian Heart : Exploring Space, Genre and Social Criticism in Dave Eggers's 'Heroes of the Frontier'
Pignagnoli, Virginia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Filologia Anglesa i de Germanística)

Date:	2017
Description:	15 pàg.
Abstract:	A deliberate playing with generic expectations combined with (more or less explicit) social criticism is a recurring feature in Dave Eggers's literary production. For instance, in You Shall Know Your Velocity! (2004), Eggers plays with the distinction between fiction and nonfiction while mildly condemning Americans' ways of spending money; The Circle (2013) blends realist fiction with science fiction to criticize hi-tech corporations (e. g. Google or Facebook). 1 In Heroes of the Frontier (2016), Eggers is similarly interested in mixing elements of different generic frameworks and in eliciting an audience-response towards social issues: he blends elements of travel writing, realist fiction, and the fantastic to create an allegoric narrative about a journey towards (the utopia of) a new frontier.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Published in:	RSAJournal Rivista di Studi Americani, Vol. 28 (2017) , p. 57-71, ISSN 1592-4467

DOI: 10.13135/1592-4467/8561

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