Utopian pasts and futures in the contemporary American novel /
"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 int...
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| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2024]
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| Online adgang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/jj.9941277 |
Indholdsfortegnelse:
- Introduction: Speculative historism, visible historical futures
- At the edges of realism: Ken Kalfus's Equilateral
- The prismatic lens of genre: Joyce Carol Oates's The Accursed
- A less oblique mode of political art: Chris Bachelder's U.S.! and Jason Heller's Taft 2012
- Escapism, nostalgia, and hope: Ernest Cline's Ready Player One
- Marvellous histories, possible futures: Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Slavery and speculation: Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad and Ben Winter's Underground Airlines
- Conclusion: Speculative historism and contemporary hope.