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04388aam a2200373 i 4500 001 5B59A5DA2E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240619010048 008 230519s2024 stk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 139951914X 020 $a 9781399519144 035 $a (OCoLC)1379266469 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCO $d INU $d YDX $d OCLCO $d MUU $d JHE $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PS169.U85 $b L36 2024 082 04 $a 810.9/006 $2 23 100 1 $a LanzendoÌrfer, Tim, $e author. 245 10 $a Utopian pasts and futures in the contemporary American novel / $c Tim LanzendoÌrfer. 264 1 $a Edinburgh : $b Edinburgh University Press Ltd, $c [2024] 300 $a vii, 232 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Examines the connection between historical and speculative fiction to offer a new form of literary-genre fiction that registers the upheavals of the early twenty-first century. Provides detailed critical readings of key writers of the early 21st century. Theorizes a reading practice and its relation to the question of literature's political role in the 21st century. Establishes a new form of literary-genre fiction that registers the upheavals of the early 21st century and potential literary answers to them. Utopian Pasts and Futures in the Contemporary American Novel highlights the emergence of a literary mode, speculative historism, over the past two decades in U.S. literature. Discussing in depth novels by writers such as Ken Kalfus, Joyce Carol Oates, and Colson Whitehead, among others, it integrates questions of critical method, genre, form, and literary theory, all of which have some urgency today. Addressing itself to the question of how to read this mode through a form of utopian hermeneutics, this study explores the formal constitution, narrative choices, and place in the wider literary market of a mode that it believes to be constitutively important for understanding American literature's struggle with the possibility of imagining hopeful futures."-- $c Publisher's website. 520 $a "Utopian Pasts and Futures in the Contemporary American Novel highlights the emergence of a literary mode, speculative historism, over the past two decades in U.S. literature. Discussing in depth novels by writers such as Ken Kalfus, Joyce Carol Oates, and Colson Whitehead, among others, it integrates questions of critical method, genre, form, and literary theory, all of which have some urgency today. Addressing itself to the question of how to read this mode through a form of utopian hermeneutics, this study explores the formal constitution, narrative choices, and place in the wider literary market of a mode that it believes to be constitutively important for understanding American literature's struggle with the possibility of imagining hopeful futures"-- $c Provided by publisher. 545 0 $a Tim Lanzendörfer is Heisenberg Research Associate Professor for Literary Theory, Literary Studies and Literary Studies Education at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-229) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Speculative historism, visible historical futures -- At the edges of realism: Ken Kalfus's Equilateral -- The prismatic lens of genre: Joyce Carol Oates's The Accursed -- A less oblique mode of political art: Chris Bachelder's U.S.! and Jason Heller's Taft 2012 -- Escapism, nostalgia, and hope: Ernest Cline's Ready Player One -- Marvellous histories, possible futures: Junot DÃaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- Slavery and speculation: Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad and Ben Winter's Underground Airlines -- Conclusion: Speculative historism and contemporary hope. 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a American fiction $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Utopias in literature. 650 7 $a American fiction $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807048 650 7 $a Utopias in literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01163372 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a LanzendoÌrfer, Tim. $t Utopian pasts and futures in the contemporary American novel. $d Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2024] $z 9781399519168 $w (OCoLC)1416153598 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619012426.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5B59A5DA2E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search