Contemporary Historical Fiction, Exceptionalism and Community

After the Wreck

AvSusan Strehle

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

This book analyzes a significant group of contemporary historical fictions that represent damaging, even catastrophic times for people and communities; In sympathy with the exiled, writers of these contemporary historical fictions create alternative communities on the state’s outer fringes.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-10-21
Mått:148 x 210 x 12 mm
Vikt:286 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:205
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030554682

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Susan Strehle is Distinguished Service Professor of English at Binghamton University (SUNY), USA. She is the author of Fiction in the Quantum Universe and Transnational Women’s Fiction: Unsettling Home and Homeland (Palgrave 2008). With Mary Paniccia Carden, she co-edited Doubled Plots: Romance and History (2003). She has published several articles on contemporary historical fiction.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Sacred Hunger, Barry Unsworth.- Chapter 3 The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan.- Chapter 4 Home and God Help the Child, Toni Morrison.- Chapter 5 LaRose, Louise Erdrich.- Chapter 6 Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders.- Chapter 7 Conclusion.