Post-9/11 Historical Fiction and Alternate History Fiction - Transnational and Multidirectional Memory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	September 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Pei-Chen Liao
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	203
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-052491-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
LSN:	3-03-052491-4
Barcode:	9783030524913

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