| 21st Century Us Historical Fiction: Contemporary Responses to the Past 2020 Edition Contributor(s): Maxey, Ruth (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3030418995 ISBN-13: 9783030418991 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - General - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.85 lbs) 275 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This new collection examines important US historical fiction published since 2000. Exploring historical novels by established American writers such as Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, E.L. Doctorow, Chang-rae Lee, James McBride, Susan Choi, and George Saunders, the book also includes chapters on first-time novelists. Individual essays in 21st Century US Historical Fiction: Contemporary Responses to the Past tackle prominent and provocative new novels, for example, recent Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction by Anthony Doerr, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Colson Whitehead. Interrogating such key themes as war, race, sexuality, trauma and childhood; notions of genre and periodization; and recent theorizations of historical fiction, scholars from the United States, Canada, Britain and Ireland analyze an emerging canon of contemporary historical fiction by an ethno-racially diverse range of major American writers. |