Writing the Past in Twenty-First-Century American Fiction
Writing the Past in Twenty-First-Century American Fiction
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Sign in or Sign up!- Release Date: 31/05/2024
- Barcode: 9781474463454
- Genre: History
- Sub-Genre: History of the Americas
- Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Writing the Past in Twenty-First-Century American Fiction
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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.
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