Lexington Books
Pages: 294
Trim: 6½ x 9
978-1-7936-4723-8 • Hardback • September 2021 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
978-1-7936-4724-5 • eBook • September 2021 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Martin Moling is a lecturer at the Institute of Education at the University of Zurich.
Chapter 1: ‘How Does it Feel?’: Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan and Rock Music’s Liberating Potential in Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” and Alice Walker’s “Nineteen Fifty-Five”
Chapter 2: ‘Renaissance on Main Street’: Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and the Discovery of a New Language in Don DeLillo’s Great Jones Street
Chapter 3: ‘You Don’t Own Me’: Girl-Group Rock and the Subversion of the Male Gaze in Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides
Chapter 4: ‘Anarchy on the Rez’: The Blues, Colonial Resistance and the Negotiation of a Native-American Identity in Sherman Alexie’s Reservation Blues
Chapter 5: ‘No Future’: Time, Punk Rock and Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad
Conclusion: And In the End…
Some of the most effective analyses of the American past emanate from examinations of music and literature. In Rock Music in American Fiction, Martin Moling takes on with an uncommon range of expertise both genres. The result is an informed and highly readable exploration not only of rock, but of the late 20th society that produced and consumed it.
— Michael T. Bertrand, Tennessee State University