Pluralist desires contemporary historical fiction and the end of the Cold War

Pluralist desires contemporary historical fiction and the end of the Cold War

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In Pluralist Desires, Philipp Löffler explores the contemporary historical novel in conjunction with three cultural shifts that have crucially affected political and intellectual life in the United States during the 1990s and 2000s: the end of the Cold War, the decline of postmodernism, and the re-e...

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1. Verfasser: Löffler, Philipp 1981- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Suffolk Boydell & Brewer 2015
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Powers, Richard > 1957- > Plowing the dark
Roth, Philip > 1933-2018 > American trilogy
Morrison, Toni > 1931-2019 > A mercy
Morrison, Toni > 1931-2019 > Beloved
DeLillo, Don > 1936-
Geschichte 1900-2000
Geschichte 1987-2008
Historical fiction, American / History and criticism
American literature / 20th century / History and criticism
Cold War in literature
National characteristics, American, in literature
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • The uses of history: From nineteenth-century historicism to twenty-first-century pluralism
  • "No longer and not yet": Don Delillo and the aftermath of the Cold War
  • After race: Body language and historiography in Toni Morrison's Beloved and A Mercy
  • "A singular act of invention": Storytelling, pluralism, and Philip Roth's American trilogy
  • Lukacsian aesthetics, self-creation, and Richard Powers's Plowing the dark

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