Utopia and terror in contemporary American fiction - Newman, Judie (New York : Routledge, 2013)
Rotten with perfection : Kim Edwards, The secrets of a fire king -- Fiction and the Unabomber : Susan Choi, A person of interest -- Blowback : AndrDubus III, House of sand and fog -- Falling woman : AndrDubus III, The garden of last days -- Pictures from a revolution : Dalia Sofer, The Septembers of Shiraz -- Updike's many worlds : local and global in Toward the end of time -- The Black Atlantic as dystopia : Bernardine Evaristo, Blonde roots -- Disaster utopias : Chitra Divakaruni, One amazing thing.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-176) and index.
Keywords: Utopias in literature; American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Dystopias in literature; Terror in literature; Fantasy in literature; Transnationalism in literature