The Alternate History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Alternate History write by Karen Hellekson. This book was released on 2001. The Alternate History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What would the world be like is history had taken a different course? Science fiction literature has long contemplated this question, and this text analyzes alternate history science fiction through a variety of historical models. It raises questions of narrative, writers, temporality and time.
Alternate History
Alternate History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alternate History write by Kathleen Singles. This book was released on 2013-10-14. Alternate History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While, strictly speaking, Alternate Histories are not Future Narratives, their analysis can shed a clear light on why Future Narratives are so different from past narratives. Trying to have it both ways, most Alternate Histories subscribe to a conflicting set of beliefs concerning determinism and freedom of choice, contingency and necessity. For the very first time, Alternate Histories are here discussed against the backdrop of their Other, Future Narratives. The volume contains in-depth analyses of the classics of the genre,such as Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle and Philip Roth's The Plot against America, as well as less widely-discussed manifestations of the genre, such as Dieter Kühn's N, Christian Kracht's Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten, and Quentin Tarantino's film Inglourious Basterds.
FASHODA - ALTERNATE HISTORY TALES
FASHODA - ALTERNATE HISTORY TALES - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook FASHODA - ALTERNATE HISTORY TALES write by . This book was released on . FASHODA - ALTERNATE HISTORY TALES available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader
Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader write by Derek Thiess. This book was released on 2014-11-25. Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The writer of alternate history asks “what if?” What if one historical event were different, what would the world look like today? In a similar way, the postmodern philosopher of history suggests that history is literature, or that if we read certain historical details differently we would get a distinctly different interpretation of past events. While the science fiction alternate history means to illuminate the past, to increase our understanding of past events, however, the postmodern approach to history typically suggests that such understanding is impossible. To the postmodern philosopher, history is like literature in that it does not offer the reader access to the past, but only an interesting story. Building on criticism that suggests personal psychological reasons for this obscuring the past, and using a literary theory of readership, this book challenges the postmodern approach to history. It channels the speculative power of science fiction to read the works of postmodern philosophy of history as alternate histories themselves, and to map the limits and pathology of their forgetful reading of the past.
Post-9/11 Historical Fiction and Alternate History Fiction
Post-9/11 Historical Fiction and Alternate History Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Post-9/11 Historical Fiction and Alternate History Fiction write by Pei-chen Liao. This book was released on 2020-09-19. Post-9/11 Historical Fiction and Alternate History Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on theories of historiography, memory, and diaspora, as well as from existing genre studies, this book explores why contemporary writers are so fascinated with history. Pei-chen Liao considers how fiction contributes to the making and remaking of the transnational history of the U.S. by thinking beyond and before 9/11, investigating how the dynamics of memory, as well as the emergent present, influences readers’ reception of historical fiction and alternate history fiction and their interpretation of the past. Set against the historical backdrop of WWII, the Vietnam War, and the War on Terror, the novels under discussion tell Jewish, Japanese, white American, African, Muslim, and Native Americans’ stories of trauma and survival. As a means to transmit memories of past events, these novels demonstrate how multidirectional memory can be not only collective but connective, as exemplified by the echoes that post-9/11 readers hear between different histories of violence that the novels chronicle, as well as between the past and the present.
