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John Duvall focuses on issues of modernist print culture, notably through his recent scholarly edition of William Faulkner’s 1949 collection of detective fiction, 'Knight’s Gambit', which restores six stories cut by magazine editors from more than 4,000 works. In 2024, Penguin Random House is set to release Duvall’s edition of 'Knight’s Gambit Vintage International' in trade paperback. His research interests span matters of racial and sexual identity as depicted in 20th and 21st-century American fiction. Duvall is the author of significant works including 'Race, White Identity, and Southern Fiction' (2008), 'Don DeLillo’s UNDERWORLD' (2002), and 'Identifying Fictions: Toni Morrison, Modernist Authenticity, and Postmodern Blackness' (2000). He has also edited numerous essay collections, such as 'Narrating 9/11: Fantasies of State, Security, and Terrorism' (2015), 'The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction Since 1945' (2012), 'Faulkner and His Critics' (2010), and 'The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo' (2008). His work significantly contributes to the understanding of modernism and postmodernism in literature.
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