Writing the past in twenty-first-century American fiction / / Alexandra Lawrie.

• VerfasserIn: Lawrie, Alexandra,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s)
• Notes: Previously issued in print: 2022.
• 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
• Audience: Specialized.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1474463479; 1474463460
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alexandra Lawrie.

'Writing 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.