21st Century US Historical Fiction: Contemporary Responses to the Past Ruth Maxey 3030418979 9783030418977

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• ISBN 10: 3030418979
• ISBN 13: 9783030418977
• Author: Ruth Maxey

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.

Table of contents:

1. US Historical Fiction Since 2000

Part I. Imagining 19th-century America in Recent Historical Fiction

2. Folklore, Fakelore, and the History of the Dream: James McBride’s Song Yet Sung

3. To “Refract Time”: The Magical History of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

4. Growing Up Too Quickly: The Cultural Construction of Children in Lyndsay Faye’s Gods of Gotham Trilogy

5. “Everyone, We Are Dead!”: (Hi)story and Power in George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo

Part II. Representations of the 20th-Century United States

6. “We Cannot Create”: The Limits of History in Joyce Carol Oates’s The Accursed

7. “Key Clacks and Bell Dings and Slamming Platens”: The Historical and Narrative Function of Music in E. L. Doctorow’s Homer and Langley

8. Archive Future: Trauma and the Child in Two Contemporary American Bestsellers

9. Creating a Usable Past: Writing the Korean War in Contemporary American Fiction

10. Paternity, History, and Misrepresentation in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer

11. Queering the “Lost Year”: Transcription and the Lesbian Continuum in Susan Choi’s American Woman

12. The Contemporary Sixties Novel: Post-postmodernism and Historiographic Metafiction

13. “What’s the Plot, Man?”: Alternate History and the Sense of an Ending in David Means’ Hystopia

14. “To Avenging My People”: Speculating Revenge for US Slavery in Dwayne Alexander Smith’s Forty A

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