Introduction to some “further adventures into the restless universe” of contemporary American fiction

The present selection is composed of three articles (on Dawn Raffel, Shelley Jackson and Matthew Derby) and an interview of Dawn Raffel conducted by Monica Manolescu. Those texts are part of the collective ongoing project of French researchers in American literature who, for the past four decades, have been exploring the ceaselessly expanding galaxy of what is somewhat loosely termed “contemporary American fiction”. The composition of this dossier, entitled “New American Voices”, raises som..