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Apocalyptic Territories - Setting and Revelation in Contemporary American Fiction (Paperback)
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Apocalyptic Territories - Setting and Revelation in Contemporary American Fiction (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
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Research on the relationship between the apocalyptic tradition and
the literary imagination has typically espoused a temporal approach
which in one way or another revolves around the order of events
that precedes the end of history and the ensuing establishment of a
new world. This study, by contrast, explores the spatial dimensions
of apocalypse, more precisely the way in which the settings of the
Book of Revelation are taken up by contemporary American writers
and related to more general but also more contested concerns of
territorial integrity and national identity. Influenced by
Lefebvre's theories, the study understands territory not simply as
the container of certain structures and practices but also as the
result of them, just as bird song is not framed by but rather
constructive of territorial borders. It is the equivalent of such
'songs' that this book seeks to listen in on, i.e. the apocalyptic
narratives that have been passed on through the centuries to define
and sustain territory on a local, regional, and national level, and
the way in which seven novels by Rick Moody, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn
Ward, Cormac McCarthy, and Michael Chabon respond to them.
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