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Author:

Gauthier, Marni J.

Title:

Amnesia and redress in contemporary American fiction : counterhistory / Marni Gauthier.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xii, 253 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--History and criticism.
Truthfulness and falsehood in literature.
Memory--Social aspects--United States.
Memory--Political aspects--United States.
Collective memory in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: contemporary historical fiction and a politics of truth -- The downfall of the empire and the emergence of detergents: underhistory in Don DeLillo's historical novels -- The other side of paradise: Toni Morrison's (un)making of mythic history -- A politics of truth and the transnational comm(unity) of abolitionists: Michelle Cliff's Free enterprise -- Transnational empire and its exuberant (dis)contents: Bharati Mukherjee's Holder of the world -- Truth-telling fiction in a post-9/11 world: Don Delillo's Falling man and Julie Otsuka's When the emperor was divine -- Epilogue: looking back is looking forward.

Series:

American literature readings in the twenty first century

ISBN:

0230115772
9780230115774

OCLC:

(OCoLC)707886952

LCCN:

2011009879

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)