TY  - GEN
T1  - Writing the Past in Twenty-first-century American Fiction
A1  - Lawrie, Alexandra
LA  - eng
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/doab-20.500.12854-111735
AB  - 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.
SN  - 9781474463447
SN  - 9781474463478
KW  - Literary Criticism
KW  - Modern
KW  - 21st Century
KW  - thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general
ER  -