LEADER 04187nam 22007815 450 001 9910484208603321 005 20251202145002.0 010 $a9783030524920 010 $a3030524922 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-52492-0 035 $a(CKB)4100000011469584 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6355566 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-52492-0 035 $a(Perlego)3481758 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6355521 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011469584 100 $a20200919d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPost-9/11 Historical Fiction and Alternate History Fiction $eTransnational and Multidirectional Memory /$fby Pei-chen Liao 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (VII, 203 p.) 311 08$a9783030524913 311 08$a3030524914 327 $aChapter 1 Introduction: Beyond and Before 9/11: A Transnational Historical Turn -- Chapter 2 ?The Second Coming?: The Resurgence of the Historical Novel and American Alternate History -- Chapter 3: ?America First?: Fear, Memory, Activism, and Everyday Life in Philip Roth?s The Plot Against America -- Chapter 4: ?In Memory of Toyoko H. Nozaka?: Life Writing, Cultural Memory, and Historical Mediation in Julie Otsuka?s When the Emperor was Divine -- Chapter 5: ?Walking a Tightrope?: Illusion and Disillusion of American Innocence and Exceptionalism in Colum McCann?s Let the Great World Spin -- Chapter 6: ?What about the Names??: Post-9/11 Commemorative Culture and Islamaphobia in Amy Waldman?s The Submission -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Connective Memories and Histories. . 330 $aDrawing 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 thenovels chronicle, as well as between the past and the present. 606 $aLiterature, Modern$x20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$x21st century 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFiction 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aEthnology$xAmerica 606 $aCulture 606 $aCollective memory 606 $aContemporary Literature 606 $aLiterary History 606 $aFiction Literature 606 $aNorth American Literature 606 $aAmerican Culture 606 $aMemory Studies 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$x20th century. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$x21st century. 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 0$aEthnology$xAmerica. 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aCollective memory. 615 14$aContemporary Literature. 615 24$aLiterary History. 615 24$aFiction Literature. 615 24$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aAmerican Culture. 615 24$aMemory Studies. 676 $a823.0876209358 676 $a800 700 $aLiao$b Pei-Chen$0857566 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484208603321 996 $aPost-9$91914844 997 $aUNINA