Post-9/11 Historical Fiction and Alternate History Fiction

Post-9/11 Historical Fiction and Alternate History Fiction
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Total Pages : 207
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ISBN-10 : 9783030524920
ISBN-13 : 3030524922
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Download or read book Post-9/11 Historical Fiction and Alternate History Fiction written by Pei-chen Liao and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-19 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on theories of historiography, memory, and diaspora, as well as from existing genre studies, this book explores why contemporary writers are so fascinated with history. Pei-chen Liao considers how fiction contributes to the making and remaking of the transnational history of the U.S. by thinking beyond and before 9/11, investigating how the dynamics of memory, as well as the emergent present, influences readers’ reception of historical fiction and alternate history fiction and their interpretation of the past. Set against the historical backdrop of WWII, the Vietnam War, and the War on Terror, the novels under discussion tell Jewish, Japanese, white American, African, Muslim, and Native Americans’ stories of trauma and survival. As a means to transmit memories of past events, these novels demonstrate how multidirectional memory can be not only collective but connective, as exemplified by the echoes that post-9/11 readers hear between different histories of violence that the novels chronicle, as well as between the past and the present.


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