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Amnesia and redress in contemporary American fiction : counterhistory / Marni Gauthier.
Van Pelt Library PS374.T78 G38 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gauthier, Marni J.
- Series:
- American literature readings in the 21st century
- American literature readings in the twenty first century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Truthfulness and falsehood in literature.
- Memory--Social aspects--United States.
- Memory.
- Memory--Social aspects.
- Memory--Political aspects.
- United States.
- Memory--Political aspects--United States.
- Collective memory in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 253 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Contents:
- Introduction: 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
- Epilogue: looking back is looking forward.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230115774
- 0230115772
- OCLC:
- 707886952
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