TY  - GEN
T1  - Utopian pasts and futures in the contemporary American novel
A1  - Lanzendörfer, Tim
LA  - English
PP  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2024
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1416153598
AB  - "Utopian Pasts and Futures in the Contemporary American Novel highlights the emergence of a literary mode, speculative historism, over the past two decades in U.S. literature. Discussing in depth novels by writers such as Ken Kalfus, Joyce Carol Oates, and Colson Whitehead, among others, it integrates questions of critical method, genre, form, and literary theory, all of which have some urgency today. Addressing itself to the question of how to read this mode through a form of utopian hermeneutics, this study explores the formal constitution, narrative choices, and place in the wider literary market of a mode that it believes to be constitutively important for understanding American literature's struggle with the possibility of imagining hopeful futures"--
OP  - 232
CN  - PS169.U85 L35 2024
SN  - 9781399519168
SN  - 1399519166
SN  - 9781399519175
SN  - 1399519174
SN  - 9781399519144
KW  - American fiction : 21st century : History and criticism.
KW  - Utopias in literature.
KW  - Roman américain : 21e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Utopies dans la littérature.
KW  - utopian literature.
KW  - FICTION / Fantasy / General
KW  - Literary criticism.
KW  - Critiques littéraires.
ER  -