Narrating Futures. / Volume 5, : Alternate History ; Playing with Contingency and Necessity / / Kathleen Singles; ed. by Christoph Bode.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Singles, Kathleen,
• HerausgeberIn: Bode, Christoph,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Narrating Futures ; Volume 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110272475; 9783110238570; 9783110238464; 9783110637854; 9783110317350; 9783110317268; 9783110317251
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110272475
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kathleen Singles; ed. by Christoph Bode.

While, strictly speaking, Alternate Histories are not Future Narratives, their analysis can shed a clear light on why Future Narratives are so different from past narratives. Trying to have it both ways, most Alternate Histories subscribe to a conflicting set of beliefs concerning determinism and freedom of choice, contingency and necessity. For the very first time, Alternate Histories are here discussed against the backdrop of their Other, Future Narratives. The volume contains in-depth analyses of the classics of the genre,such as Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle and Philip Roth's The Plot against America, as well as less widely-discussed manifestations of the genre, such as Dieter Kühn's N, Christian Kracht's Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten, and Quentin Tarantino's film Inglourious Basterds.