Amnesia and Redress in Contemporary American Fiction: Counterhistory

By Marni Gauthier

Book Overview

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 Looking Back is Looking Forward: The Torture Debate and the Cultural Work of Truth-Telling Historical Fiction in the 21st Century

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349296821
• ISBN13: 9781349296828
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"