Terkko Navigator / Subversive storyteller : the short story cycle and the politics of identity in America, The

Section I. The making of a genre.
section II. Moving towards the modern.
section III. A fractured society : seeking (and finding) community. The Subversive Storyteller: The Short Story Cycle and the Politics of Identity in America examines how nineteenth- and twentieth-century American authors adapted and expanded the short story cycle to convey subversive or controversial ideas without aliena.