Toward diversity and emancipation

(Re-)Narrating Space in the Contemporary American Novel

Autori

• Marcel Thoene

Parametri

• 354 pagine
• 13 ore di lettura

• Narrativa

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This book focuses on the pivotal role which space and spatiality assume in plot and narrative discourse of contemporary U. S.-American literary narratives. Embarking from a new, spatialized approach to cultural history and particularly narrative theory that might also prove useful for neighboring philologies, Marcel Thoene hypothesizes that the canon of novels selected represents a dialectic of simultaneous affirmation and subversion of the American space myth. This results in an integrative and emancipatory function of space reflecting the current dynamic toward a more transcultural, diverse and conflictive post-national U. S.-American society.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2016