American fiction of the 1990s: reflections of history and culture

Transnational borders. Outside in : Latino/a un-bordering in US fiction / A. Robert Lee ; "Come change your destiny, turn suffering into silver and joy" : constituting Americans / Nahem Yousaf ; America as diaphor : cultural translation in Bharati Mukherjee's The holder of the world / Krishna Sen

Race cathexes. Red, white, and black : racial exchanges in fiction by Sherman Alexie / Andrew Dix ; In the shadow of the gun : African-American fiction and the anxieties of nostalgia / Andrew Warnes ; Tragic no more? : the reappearance of the racially mixed character / Suzanne W. Jones

Historical narratives. The way we were(n't) : origins and empire in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon / Stacey Olster ; Contesting the historical pastoral in Philip Roth's American trilogy / Derek Parker Royal ; Skating on a shit field : Tim O'Brien and the topography of trauma / Brian Jarvis

Sex images. A painful progress : queer fiction and the American protest literature tradition / Zoe Trodd ; Regular Lolitas : the afterlives of an American adolescent / Kasia Boddy ; Glamorama, Fight club, and the terror of narcissistic abjection / Alex E. Blazer

Postmodern technologies. Beyond the Cold War in Don DeLillo's Mao II and Underworld / Peter Knight ; Selfless cravings : addiction and recovery in David Foster Wallace's Infinite jest / Timothy Aubry ; The end of postmodernism : American fiction at the millennium / Stephen J. Burn.