دانلود کتاب 21st Century US Historical Fiction: Contemporary Responses to the Past

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Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
US Historical Fiction Since 2000 (Ruth Maxey)....Pages 1-14
Front Matter ....Pages 15-15
Folklore, Fakelore, and the History of the Dream: James McBride’s Song Yet Sung (Judie Newman)....Pages 17-32
To “Refract Time”: The Magical History of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad (Michael Docherty)....Pages 33-52
Growing Up Too Quickly: The Cultural Construction of Children in Lyndsay Faye’s Gods of Gotham Trilogy (James Peacock)....Pages 53-72
“Everyone, We Are Dead!”: (Hi)story and Power in George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo (Clare Hayes-Brady)....Pages 73-91
Front Matter ....Pages 93-93
“We Cannot Create”: The Limits of History in Joyce Carol Oates’s The Accursed (Rachael McLennan)....Pages 95-110
“Key Clacks and Bell Dings and Slamming Platens”: The Historical and Narrative Function of Music in E. L. Doctorow’s Homer and Langley (Villy Karagouni)....Pages 111-128
Archive Future: Trauma and the Child in Two Contemporary American Bestsellers (Aimee Pozorski)....Pages 129-147
Creating a Usable Past: Writing the Korean War in Contemporary American Fiction (Ruth Maxey)....Pages 149-169
Paternity, History, and Misrepresentation in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer (Debra Shostak)....Pages 171-189
Queering the “Lost Year”: Transcription and the Lesbian Continuum in Susan Choi’s American Woman (Rebecca Martin)....Pages 191-207
The Contemporary Sixties Novel: Post-postmodernism and Historiographic Metafiction (Mark West)....Pages 209-227
“What’s the Plot, Man?”: Alternate History and the Sense of an Ending in David Means’ Hystopia (Diletta De Cristofaro)....Pages 229-244
“To Avenging My People”: Speculating Revenge for US Slavery in Dwayne Alexander Smith’s Forty Acres (DeLisa D. Hawkes)....Pages 245-263
Back Matter ....Pages 265-275