Jawbreaker: Literary Punk and Authenticity
Book Chapter
Keeble, A. (2022)
Jawbreaker: Literary Punk and Authenticity. In R. Durkin (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature (395-405). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367237288-39
The End of the 90s in Porochista Khakpour's The Last Illusion, Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room and Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Journal Article
Keeble, A. (in press)
The End of the 90s in Porochista Khakpour's The Last Illusion, Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room and Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2022.2078179
This article argues that three contemporary novels – Porochista Khakpour's The Last Illusion (2014), Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room (2017), and Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of R...
Globalism, Multiculturalism and Violence in Zia Hader Rahman’s In the Light of What We Know (2014) and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire (2017)
Journal Article
Keeble, A., & Annesley, J. (2021)
Globalism, Multiculturalism and Violence in Zia Hader Rahman’s In the Light of What We Know (2014) and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire (2017). Parallax, 27(1), 79-97. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2021.1976463
The Ordinary Literary World of Lodge 49
Journal Article
Keeble, A. (2021)
The Ordinary Literary World of Lodge 49. Post45,
This article argues that Jim Gavin's short-lived series Lodge 49 (2018-2019) presents a vision of Long Beach, CA, which is highly distinctive in the diffuse yet deeply embedd...
From Trauma Theory to Systemic Violence: Narratives of Post-Katrina New Orleans
Book Chapter
Keeble, A. (2021)
From Trauma Theory to Systemic Violence: Narratives of Post-Katrina New Orleans. In K. R. McNamara (Ed.), The City in American Literature and Culture (276-292). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
This chapter begins with a discussion of some of the contemporary critiques that have been aimed at trauma theory, focussing specifically on the way writing by Lauren Berlant ...
The Implicated Neoliberal Subject in Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge
Journal Article
Stacy, I., & Keeble, A. (2022)
The Implicated Neoliberal Subject in Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge. Journal of American Studies, 56(2), 320-347. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002187582100058X
This article argues that in Bleeding Edge, Pynchon moves from an oppositional schema in which the world is divided into elect and preterite populations towards one that is con...
“Siblings, Kinship and Allegory in Jesmyn Ward’s Fiction and Nonfiction”
Journal Article
Keeble, A. (2019)
“Siblings, Kinship and Allegory in Jesmyn Ward’s Fiction and Nonfiction”. Critique, 61(1), 40-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2019.1663145
This article examines the centrality of sibling relationships in Jesmyn Ward’s fiction and nonfiction, focusing specifically on her second novel Salvage the Bones (2011) and m...
Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context: Literature, Film and Television
Book
Keeble, A. (2019)
Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context: Literature, Film and Television. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16353-2
This book analyzes six key narratives of Hurricane Katrina across literature, film and television from the literary fiction of Jesmyn Ward to the cinema of Spike Lee. It argue...
The 9/11 Novel
Book Chapter
Keeble, A. (2018)
The 9/11 Novel. In The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction, (273-286). London: Taylor & Francis
Abstract not available.
Bleeding Edge, Neo-Liberalism, and the 9/11 Novel.
Journal Article
Keeble, A. (2019)
Bleeding Edge, Neo-Liberalism, and the 9/11 Novel. Canadian Review of American Studies, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.3138/cras.2017.028
This article argues that Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge (2013)
can be read within the canon of 9/11 novels in unexpected and productive ways. Its rich, intertwined narrative o...