Writing the Past in Twenty-First-Century American Fiction

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...

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Main Author: Lawrie, Alexandra
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2022
Edition:1
Subjects:
21st Century
American fiction
American Studies
Biography, Literature and Literary studies
History in literature
Language & Literature
Literary Criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century
LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General
LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events
Literary Studies
Literary studies: general
Literature: history and criticism
Modern
Literary Studies
ISBN:9781474463447, 1474463444, 9781474463478, 1474463479, 9781474463461, 1474463460
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Summary: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. 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.
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ISBN:9781474463447
1474463444
9781474463478
1474463479
9781474463461
1474463460
DOI:10.1515/9781474463461