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Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace
ISBN: 9780231542401
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Characters and characteristics in literature;

Jeremy Rosen traces the recent surge books that transform minor characters from canonical literary texts into the protagonists of new work. A genre that sought to recover the voices of marginalized individuals and groups has begun to embody the neoliberal commitments of subjective experience, individual expression, and agency.

Reader #2 -- Jeremy Rosen is assistant professor of English at the University of Utah. He is the author of Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace (Columbia University Press, 2016). I selected him for his work on contemporary fiction.Jeremy Rosen is an assistant professor of English at the University of Utah. His work has been published in New Literary History , Contemporary Literature , and Post45 .