A Body of Individuals The Paradox of Community in Contemporary Fiction - Lee, Sue-Im, 1969-; Project Muse. (Ohio State University Press, 2009)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-191) and index.
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Keywords: Communities in literature; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Electronic books