Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 205 pages)
ISBN:
9783030554668
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Contemporary Historical Fiction: Exceptionalism and Community After the Wreck -- Exceptionalism -- Community -- Inclusions, Choices, Methods -- References -- Chapter 2: Historical Fiction and Wreckage: Hilary Mantel and Amitav Ghosh -- Theorizing Historical Fiction -- Critical Approaches to Contemporary Historical Fiction -- Recovery and Wreckage: Hilary Mantel and Amitav Ghosh -- References -- Chapter 3: Slavery and the Maroon Community: Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger -- A History of Research -- Exceptional Systems and the Excepted Maroon Community -- Form: Situated Omniscience -- References -- Chapter 4: War and Communities of Suffering: Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North -- Australia in the Pacific War -- Exceptional States and Communities of the Doomed -- At War with Narrative Form -- References -- Chapter 5: Racism and Communities Beyond Race: Toni Morrison, Home and God Help the Child -- Morrison and Histories of Racism in America -- Exceptionalism and Community in Home and God Help the Child -- Inclusive Forms and Communities of Story -- References -- Chapter 6: Indian Schools and Kinship Communities: Louise Erdrich, LaRose -- Histories of Lost Children -- The Kinship Community -- Kinship and Form -- References -- Chapter 7: Disavowed Others and Ghostly Communities: George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo -- Histories of Civil War -- Exceptional Citizens in a Communal Bardo -- Form: Genres, Fragments, and Permeable Borders -- References -- Chapter 8: Global Fictions of Wreckage and Unsheltered Communities -- References -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030554651
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Strehle, Susan Contemporary Historical Fiction, Exceptionalism and Community Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020 ISBN 3030554651
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030554651
Language:
English
