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American Fiction Since 1940 Michael Abbott considering the nature of theIn this remarkable book, Tony Hilfer provides a major survey of the wealth of post war American fiction. He analyses the major modes and genres of writing, from realist to postmodernist metafiction and black humour, the fiction of social protest, women's writing, and the traditions of African American, Southern and Jewish American fiction. Key writers discussed include William Faulkner, Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller,