The Spaces of Violence
Probes the interrelationship of violence and space in ten contemporary American novels

In The Spaces of Violence, James R. Giles examines ten contemporary American novels for the unique ways in which they explore violence and space as interrelated phenomena. These texts are Russell Banks’s Affliction, Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark and Child of God, Lewis Nordan’s Wolf Whistle, Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina, Don DeLillo’s End Zone, Denis Johnson’s Angels, Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer, Robert Stone’s Dog Soldiers, and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho. A concluding chapter extends the focus to texts by Jane Smiley, Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, and Chuck Palahniuk, who treat the destructive effects of violence on family structures.
   
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The Spaces of Violence
Probes the interrelationship of violence and space in ten contemporary American novels

In The Spaces of Violence, James R. Giles examines ten contemporary American novels for the unique ways in which they explore violence and space as interrelated phenomena. These texts are Russell Banks’s Affliction, Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark and Child of God, Lewis Nordan’s Wolf Whistle, Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina, Don DeLillo’s End Zone, Denis Johnson’s Angels, Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer, Robert Stone’s Dog Soldiers, and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho. A concluding chapter extends the focus to texts by Jane Smiley, Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, and Chuck Palahniuk, who treat the destructive effects of violence on family structures.
   
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The Spaces of Violence

The Spaces of Violence

by James Giles
The Spaces of Violence

The Spaces of Violence

by James Giles

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Probes the interrelationship of violence and space in ten contemporary American novels

In The Spaces of Violence, James R. Giles examines ten contemporary American novels for the unique ways in which they explore violence and space as interrelated phenomena. These texts are Russell Banks’s Affliction, Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark and Child of God, Lewis Nordan’s Wolf Whistle, Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina, Don DeLillo’s End Zone, Denis Johnson’s Angels, Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer, Robert Stone’s Dog Soldiers, and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho. A concluding chapter extends the focus to texts by Jane Smiley, Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, and Chuck Palahniuk, who treat the destructive effects of violence on family structures.
   

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780817382803
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Publication date: 06/30/2009
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 248
File size: 321 KB

About the Author

James R. Giles is Presidential Teaching Professor of English at Northern Illinois University and author of eight books, including Violence in the Contemporary American Novel: An End to Innocence and Confronting the Horror: The Novels of Nelson Algren.  

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Violence and Space

2. Discovering Fourthspace in Appalachia: Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark and Child of God

3. Russell Banks’s Affliction: “All Those Solitary Dumb Angry Men”

4. Of Vultures, Eyeballs, and Parrots: Lewis Nordan’s Wolf Whistle

5. The Myth of the Boatright Men: Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina

6. Playing for Death: Don DeLillo’s End Zone

7. Drifting through Urantia: Greyhound Space in Denis Johnson’s Angels

8. The Return of John Smith: Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer

9. “The Battle of Bob Hope” and “The Great Elephant Zap”: Robert Stone’s Dog Soldiers

10. “I Hope You Didn’t Go into Raw Space without Me”: Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho

11. Violence and Family Structures

Notes

Works Cited

Index

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