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Amnesia and redress in contemporary American fiction Counterhistory /

This book shows how a political and cultural dynamic of amnesia and truth telling shapes literary constructions of history. Gauthier focuses on the works of Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff, Bharati Mukherjee, and Julie Otsuka.

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Main Authors: Gauthier, Marni J
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: American literature readings in the twenty-first century
Subjects:
American fiction > History and criticism
Truthfulness and falsehood in literature
Memory > Social aspects > United States
Memory > Political aspects > United States
Collective memory in literature
Literary studies: from c 1900 - > English
Literary theory > English
Literature
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230337824
Summary: This book shows how a political and cultural dynamic of amnesia and truth telling shapes literary constructions of history. Gauthier focuses on the works of Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff, Bharati Mukherjee, and Julie Otsuka.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230115774, 2011.
Carrier Form: 266 p.
ISBN: 9780230115774
9780230337824 :
0230337821 :
CLC: I712.074
Contents: 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

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