Writing the Past in Twenty-First-Century American Fiction

AvAlexandra Lawrie

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2022-09-13
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:458 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474463447

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Alexandra Lawrie is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.

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'Always historicize!’ Fredric Jameson taught us, and Alexandra Lawrie does so compellingly in her account of a turn-of-the-millennium generation of US novelists who have themselves taken Jameson’s lesson to heart. Sampling half a dozen or so representative writers, some of them　 familiar, others less so, Lawrie illuminates the contemporary art of fiction by adeptly interweaving attentive close reading with contextualizing historical information.

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Acknowledgements Introduction Historical racism and contemporary incarceration in C. E. Morgan and Hari Kunzru Ben Lerner and literary antecedents of the city Dana Spiotta and political commitment AIDS activism and looking back in Tim Murphy and Garth Greenwell Anxious futures in Colson Whitehead and Omar El Akkad Conclusion Bibliography