The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era - 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 Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era write by Susan Brantly. This book was released on 2017-02-17. The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the genre of the historical novel and the variety of ways in which writers choose to represent the past, demonstrating how histories can communicate across national borders, often by invoking or deconstructing the very notion of nationhood. It traces how concerns of the postmodern era such as critiques of historiography, colonialism, identity, and the Enlightenment, have impacted the genre of the historical novel, and shows this impact has not been uniform throughout Western culture. Historical novels from England, America, Germany, and France are compared and contrasted with historical novels from Sweden, testing a variety of theoretical perspectives in the process.
The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era
The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era - 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 Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era write by Susan Brantly. This book was released on 2017-02-17. The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores the genre of the historical novel and the variety of ways in which writers choose to represent the past. How does an author’s nationality or gender impact their artistic choices? To what extent can historical novels appeal to a transnational audience? This study demonstrates how histories can communicate across national borders, often by invoking or deconstructing the very notion of nationhood. Furthermore, it traces how the concerns of the postmodern era, such as postmodern critiques of historiography, colonialism, identity, and the Enlightenment, have impacted the genre of the historical novel, and shows this impact has not been uniform throughout Western culture. Not all historical novels written during the postmodern era are postmodern. The historical novel as a genre occupies a problematic, yet significant space in Cold War literary currents, torn between claims of authenticity and the impossibility of accessing the past. Historical novels from England, America, Germany, and France are compared and contrasted with historical novels from Sweden, testing a variety of theoretical perspectives in the process. This pitting of a center against a periphery serves to highlight traits that historical novels from the West have in common, but also how they differ. The historical novel is not just a local, regional phenomenon, but has become, during the postmodern era, a transnational tool for exploring how we should think of nations and nationalism and what a society should, or should not, look like.
The Transnational in Literary Studies
The Transnational in Literary Studies - 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 Transnational in Literary Studies write by Kai Wiegandt. This book was released on 2020-07-06. The Transnational in Literary Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume clarifies the meanings and applications of the concept of the transnational and identifies areas in which the concept can be particularly useful. The division of the volume into three parts reflects areas which seem particularly amenable to analysis through a transnational lens. The chapters in Part 1 present case studies in which the concept replaces or complements traditionally dominant concepts in literary studies. These chapters demonstrate, for example, why some dramatic texts and performances can better be described as transnational than as postcolonial, and how the transnational underlies and complements concepts such as world literature. Part 2 assesses the advantages and limitations of writing literary history with a transnational focus. These chapters illustrate how such a perspective loosens the epistemic stranglehold of national historiographies, but they also argue that the transnational and national agendas of literary historiography are frequently entangled. The chapters in Part 3 identify transnational genres such as the transnational historical novel, transnational migrant fiction and translinguistic theatre, and analyse the specific poetics and politics of these genres.
Contemporary Historical Fiction, Exceptionalism and Community
Contemporary Historical Fiction, Exceptionalism and Community - 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 Contemporary Historical Fiction, Exceptionalism and Community write by Susan Strehle. This book was released on 2020-10-19. Contemporary Historical Fiction, Exceptionalism and Community available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyzes a significant group of contemporary historical fictions that represent damaging, even catastrophic times for people and communities; written “after the wreck,” they recall instructive pasts. The novels chronicle wars, slavery, racism, child abuse and genocide; they reveal damages that ensue when nations claim an exalted, exceptionalist identity and violate the human rights of their Others. In sympathy with the exiled, writers of these contemporary historical fictions create alternative communities on the state’s outer fringes. These fictive communities include where the state excludes; they foreground relations of debt and obligation to the group in place of individualism, competition and private property. Rather than assimilating members to a single identity with a unified set of views, the communities open multiple possibilities for belonging. Analyzing novels from Britain, Australia and the U.S., along with additional transnational examples, Susan Strehle explores the political vision animating some contemporary historical fictions.
21st Century US Historical Fiction
21st Century US Historical 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 21st Century US Historical Fiction write by Ruth Maxey. This book was released on 2020-07-17. 21st Century US Historical Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This new collection examines important US historical fiction published since 2000. Exploring historical novels by established American writers such as Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, E.L. Doctorow, Chang-rae Lee, James McBride, Susan Choi, and George Saunders, the book also includes chapters on first-time novelists. Individual essays in 21st Century US Historical Fiction: Contemporary Responses to the Past tackle prominent and provocative new novels, for example, recent Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction by Anthony Doerr, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Colson Whitehead. Interrogating such key themes as war, race, sexuality, trauma and childhood; notions of genre and periodization; and recent theorizations of historical fiction, scholars from the United States, Canada, Britain and Ireland analyze an emerging canon of contemporary historical fiction by an ethno-racially diverse range of major American writers.
