For a generation of contemporary Anglo-American novelists, the question "Why write?" has been answered with a renewed will to believe in the ethical value of literature.
Coetzee, Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith, Gish Jen, Ian McEwan, and Jonathan Franzen--champion the Novel as the literary genre most qualified to illuminate individual ethical action and decision-making within complex and diverse.
Dissatisfied with postmodernist parody and pastiche, a broad array of novelist-critics--including J.
M.
For a generation of contemporary Anglo-American novelists, the question "Why write?" has been answered with a renewed will to believe in the ethical value of literature