Books by Gavin Cologne-Brookes

Joyce Carol Oates is America's most extraordinary and prolific woman of letters. Gavin Cologne-Brookes illuminates the vision of Oates, finding evidence in her novels of an evolving consciousness that forgoes abstract introspection in favour of a more practical approach to art as a tool for understanding both personal and social challenges.

This text surveys the writing genres that have contributed to the American notions of America. Essays from scholars from both sides of the Atlantic chart the range of responses to American nationhood, from colonial times to the present, and include dissenting responses from minority communities.