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Asking 'what it means to write political fiction in America... at this historical moment', Dr. Tokarczyk uses the word 'political' in its enlarged contemporary sense, a sense instructed by feminism and other recent social movements to remember that strikes and barricades do not exhaust the subject of politics. If 'the personal is political', then most if not all novelists must count as political novelists. But Dr. Tokarczyk refuses to take this easy way out. She gives Doctorow full credit for his commitment to politics of a literal or traditional kind ...and she takes for her real subject what she calls Doctorow's 'politics of indirection': the tense zone of subtle and unpredictable interactions that Doctorow sets up between such large, public, historical matters and the 'personal' materials of the novel. (Bruce Robbins, from the Preface)

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The Author: Michelle M. Tokarczyk is Associate Professor of English at Goucher College. She received her Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York, Stony Brook. In addition to several articles and reviews in contemporary literary and cultural studies, she has written E. L. Doctorow: An Annotated Bibliography and co-edited Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory.

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