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Post-9/11 Historical Fiction and Alternate History Fiction - Transnational and Multidirectional Memory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Post-9/11 Historical Fiction and Alternate History Fiction - Transnational and Multidirectional Memory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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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 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 the novels chronicle, as well
as between the past and the present.
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