Post 9/11 historical fiction and alternate history fiction : transnational and multidirectional memory /
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 United States...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 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 Roths The Plot Against America
- Chapter 4: "In Memory of Toyoko H. Nozaka": Life Writing, Cultural Memory, and Historical Mediation in Julie Otsukas When the Emperor was Divine
- Chapter 5: "Walking a Tightrope": Illusion and Disillusion of American Innocence and Exceptionalism in Colum McCanns Let the Great World Spin
- Chapter 6: "What about the Names?": Post-9/11 Commemorative Culture and Islamaphobia in Amy Waldmans The Submission
- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Connective Memories and Histories.