Writing the Past in Twenty-first-century American Fiction / / Alexandra Lawrie.
Argues for a reawakened commitment to historicity in contemporary American fictionIncludes brand new and intensive readings of contemporary novels by the foremost American writers of the twenty-first centuryCombines detailed contextual discussion with close readings of the novelsPlaces historical ev...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English |
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Historical Racism and Contemporary Incarceration in C. E. Morgan and Hari Kunzru -- 2. Ben Lerner and Literary Antecedents of the City -- 3. Dana Spiotta and Political Commitment -- 4. AIDS Activism and Looking Back in Tim Murphy and Garth Greenwell -- 5. Anxious Futures in Colson Whitehead and Omar El Akkad -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | Argues for a reawakened commitment to historicity in contemporary American fictionIncludes brand new and intensive readings of contemporary novels by the foremost American writers of the twenty-first centuryCombines detailed contextual discussion with close readings of the novelsPlaces historical events in dialogue with twenty-first-century contextsWriting the Past in Twenty-First-Century American Fiction examines contemporary novels profoundly shaped by a sense of historical consciousness. Authors including Ben Lerner, Colson Whitehead, Dana Spiotta, Hari Kunzru and Garth Greenwell each use flashbacks, historical parallels and non-sequential narrative arrangements to emphasise the re-emergence, in a twenty-first-century context, of historical structures and circumstances. This study explores how these frequent moments of temporal slippage amount to a ‘falling out of time’, as characters are forced to confront the past crises which continue to exert pressure on their own contemporary moment. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781474463461 9783110993899 9783110994810 9783110993752 9783110993738 9783110780390 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781474463461 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Alexandra Lawrie. |