21st Century US Historical Fiction: Contemporary Responses to the Past 1st Edition

21st Century US Historical Fiction: Contemporary Responses to the Past 1st Edition- Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030418960,9783030418977,3030418960,3030418979

Product details:

• ISBN 10:3030418979
• ISBN 13: 9783030418977
• Author:  Ruth Maxey

Table contents:

1. US Historical Fiction Since 2000

Part I. Imagining 19th-century America in Recent Historical Fiction

2. Folklore, Fakelore, and the History of the Dream: James McBride’s Song Yet Sung

3. To “Refract Time”: The Magical History of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

4. Growing Up Too Quickly: The Cultural Construction of Children in Lyndsay Faye’s Gods of Gotham Trilogy

5. “Everyone, We Are Dead!”: (Hi)story and Power in George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo

Part II. Representations of the 20th-Century United States

6. “We Cannot Create”: The Limits of History in Joyce Carol Oates’s The Accursed

7. “Key Clacks and Bell Dings and Slamming Platens”: The Historical and Narrative Function of Music in E. L. Doctorow’s Homer and Langley

8. Archive Future: Trauma and the Child in Two Contemporary American Bestsellers

9. Creating a Usable Past: Writing the Korean War in Contemporary American Fiction

10. Paternity, History, and Misrepresentation in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer

11. Queering the “Lost Year”: Transcription and the Lesbian Continuum in Susan Choi’s American Woman

12. The Contemporary Sixties Novel: Post-postmodernism and Historiographic Metafiction

13. “What’s the Plot, Man?”: Alternate History and the Sense of an Ending in David Means’ Hystopia

14. “To Avenging My People”: Speculating Revenge for US Slavery

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