Contemporary Historical Fiction, Exceptionalism and Community
After the Wreck
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book analyzes a significant group of contemporary historical fictions that represent damaging, even catastrophic times for people and communities; written "after the wreck," they recall instructive pasts. The novels chronicle wars, slavery,...
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This book analyzes a significant group of contemporary historical fictions that represent damaging, even catastrophic times for people and communities; written "after the wreck," they recall instructive pasts. The novels chronicle wars, slavery, racism, child abuse and genocide; they reveal damages that ensue when nations claim an exalted, exceptionalist identity and violate the human rights of their Others. In sympathy with the exiled, writers of these contemporary historical fictions create alternative communities on the state's outer fringes. These fictive communities include where the state excludes; they foreground relations of debt and obligation to the group in place of individualism, competition and private property. Rather than assimilating members to a single identity with a unified set of views, the communities open multiple possibilities for belonging. Analyzing novels from Britain, Australia and the U.S., along with additional transnational examples, Susan Strehle explores the political vision animating some contemporary historical fictions. Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Contemporary Historical Fiction, Exceptionalism and Community “
Table of Contents Chapter 1. Contemporary Historical Fiction: Exceptionalism and Community After the Wreck
Chapter 2. Historical Fiction and Wreckage: Hilary Mantel and Amitav Ghosh
Chapter 3. Slavery and the Maroon Community: Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
Chapter 4. War and Communities of Suffering: Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Chapter 5. Racism and Communities Beyond Race: Toni Morrison, Home and God Help the Child
Chapter 6. Indian Schools and Kinship Communities: Louise Erdrich, LaRose
Chapter 7. Disavowed Others and Ghostly Communities: George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo (225-260)
Chapter 8. Global Fictions of Wreckage and Unsheltered Communities
Autoren-Porträt von Susan Strehle
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Susan Strehle
- 2021, 1st ed. 2020, X, 205 Seiten, Maße: 14,8 x 21 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3030554686
- ISBN-13: 9783030554682
Sprache:
Englisch
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