{"product_id":"9781441133007","title":"Outside, America: The Temporal Turn in Contemporary American Fiction","description":"The idea of the \"outside\" as a space of freedom has always been central in the literature of the United States. This concept still remains active in contemporary American fiction; however, its function is being significantly changed. Outside, America argues that, among contemporary American novelists, a shift of focus to the temporal dimension is taking place. No longer a spatial movement, the quest for the outside now seeks to reach the idea of time as a force of difference, a la Deleuze, by which the current subjectivity is transformed. In other words, the concept is taking a \"temporal turn.\"  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscussing eight novelists, including Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, Paul Theroux, and Annie Proulx, each of whose works describe forces of given identities-masculine identity, historical temporality, and power, etc.-which block quests for the outside, Fujii shows how the outside in these texts ceases to be a spatial idea. With due attention to critical and social contexts, the book aims to reveal a profound shift in contemporary American fiction.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140026089712,"sku":"9781441133007","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781441133007_p0.jpg?v=1763802102","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781441133007","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}