E-Book, Englisch, 253 Seiten, eBook
Gauthier Amnesia and Redress in Contemporary American Fiction
2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-33782-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
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Counterhistory
E-Book, Englisch, 253 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
ISBN: 978-0-230-33782-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
This book shows how a political and cultural dynamic of amnesia and truth telling shapes literary constructions of history. Gauthier focuses on the works of Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff, Bharati Mukherjee, and Julie Otsuka.
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Contemporary Historical Fiction and a Politics of Truth 'The Downfall of the Empire and the Emergence of Detergents': Underhistory in Don DeLillo's Historical Novels The Other Side of Paradise: Toni Morrison's (Un)Making of Mythic History A Politics of Truth and the Transnational Comm(unity) of Abolitionists: Michelle Cliff's Free Enterprise Transnational Empire and its Exuberant (dis)Contents: Bharati Mukherjee's Holder of the World Truth-Telling Fiction in a Post-9/11 World: Don DeLillo's Falling Man and Julie Otsuka's When the Emperor Was Divine Looking Back is Looking Forward: The Torture Debate and the Cultural Work of Truth-Telling Historical Fiction in the 21st Century