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14 juillet 2021
- doi: 10.4000/ejas.17170
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Magdalena Bazylewicz, « A New Manifestation of American Socially Engaged Fiction », European journal of American studies, ID : 10.4000/ejas.17170
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The article addresses a peculiar manifestation of the contemporary American socially engaged novel: the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Using the tools of the New Historicism, the work scrutinizes Ron Childress’ award-winning novel And West is West in an attempt to establish what it means for a modern work fiction to be socially engaged. Through creative application of Foucault’s discourse analysis intertwined with AnisShivani’s theory of plastic realism, the paper analyses the cultural forces at play in a self-proclaimed novel of social reform.