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Argues for a reawakened commitment to historicity in contemporary 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 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. Alexandra Lawrie is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.
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Writing the Past in Twenty-First-Century American Fiction, Alexandra Lawrie
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- Pubblicato
- 2024
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- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Alexandra Lawrie
- Editore
- Edinburgh University Press
- Pubblicato
- 2024
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 208
- ISBN10
- 1474463452
- ISBN13
- 9781474463454
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- Descrizione
- Argues for a reawakened commitment to historicity in contemporary 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 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. Alexandra Lawrie is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.