“Pitch the king”: Ben Fountain’s games

In his stories and his novel, Ben Fountain uses games as an epistemological tool. Games allow him to subvert the cultural codes, his satire becoming a political critique of the nation and of US foreign policy, and to operate a fusion of the characters’ voices, as he looks for a collective or transpe...

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Main Author: Françoise Palleau-Papin
Format: article
Language:EN
FR
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2013
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E-F
Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/fda0e954190f4789ab7b4a1b54fd64a8
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