LEADER 03566nam 22005775 450 001 9910863179603321 005 20240619142958.0 010 $a3-030-55466-X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-55466-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000011513440 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6381342 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-55466-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011513440 100 $a20201019d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aContemporary Historical Fiction, Exceptionalism and Community $eAfter the Wreck /$fby Susan Strehle 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 $cSpringer International Publishing$d2020 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (X, 205 p.) 311 $a3-030-55465-1 327 $aChapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Sacred Hunger, Barry Unsworth -- Chapter 3 The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan -- Chapter 4 Home and God Help the Child, Toni Morrison -- Chapter 5 LaRose, Louise Erdrich -- Chapter 6 Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders -- Chapter 7 Conclusion. 330 $aThis 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. Susan Strehle is Distinguished Service Professor of English at Binghamton University (SUNY), USA. She is the author of Fiction in the Quantum Universe and Transnational Women?s Fiction: Unsettling Home and Homeland (Palgrave 2008). With Mary Paniccia Carden, she co-edited Doubled Plots: Romance and History (2003). She has published several articles on contemporary historical fiction. 606 $aLiterature, Modern$x20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$x21st century 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFiction 606 $aContemporary Literature 606 $aLiterary History 606 $aFiction Literature 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$x20th century. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$x21st century. 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFiction. 615 14$aContemporary Literature. 615 24$aLiterary History. 615 24$aFiction Literature. 676 $a823.08109 676 $a800 700 $aStrehle$b Susan$01741109 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910863179603321 996 $aContemporary Historical Fiction, Exceptionalism and Community$94167090 997 $aUNINA