Secrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction examines the relation between secrecy and community in a diverse and international range of contemporary fictional

"Collects a range of theoretical approaches and close readings in order to analyze the relationship between secrecy and community in contemporary fiction"--

"A much-needed contribution to and critique of debates in the newly emerging field of transparency studies from the perspective of American literary studies. In

Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at ‘The Beginni

The working hypothesis of the book is that, since the 1990s, an increasing number of Anglophone fictions are responding to the new ethical and political demands