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- ISBN 9780313381652
- Publication Date: 16 Jun 2010
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book provides comprehensive, up-to-date commentary and critical guidance on the writings of Russell Banks.
Despite being a globally successful writer who has been published for over 30 years and is credited with two successful movies based on his work, there is but one prior study of Russell Banks's work in English, which is now nearly a decade old. Russell Banks: In Search of Freedom offers the only modern, complete commentary on his work and establishes Banks as one of the leaders in the postmodern, neorealist tradition of American fiction.
This critical guide contains a brief biography of Banks, describing the details of his life that shaped his philosophies, plot themes, and settings, such as New England and the Caribbean. Russell Banks then illustrates how Banks moved beyond his working-class origins and explored problems in race, communication, sexual and family relations, religion, popular culture, landscape, and more recently, the upper class. The final chapter explains Banks's unique vision of American history and liberty.
- A select bibliography provides a list of essential background reading
- An index offers quick access to themes and literary influences
Kevin T. McEneaney is the author of two poetry collections, The Enclosed Garden and Longing, as well as Praeger's Tom Wolfe's America: Heroes, Pranksters, and Fools, which won a 2010 Outstanding Academic Title award from Choice magazine.