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Writing the Past in Twenty-First-Century American Fiction examines contemporary novels profoundly shaped by a sense of historical consciousness. Authors including Ben Lerner, Colson Whitehead, Dana Spiotta, Hari Kunzru and Garth Greenwell each use flashbacks, historical parallels and non-sequential narrative arrangements to emphasise the re-emergence, in a twenty-first-century context, of historical structures and circumstances. This study explores how these frequent moments of temporal slippage amount to a 'falling out of time', as characters are forced to confront the past crises which continue to exert pressure on their own contemporary moment.
Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction
Historical racism and contemporary incarceration in C. E. Morgan and Hari Kunzru
Ben Lerner and literary antecedents of the city
Dana Spiotta and political commitment
AIDS activism and looking back in Tim Murphy and Garth Greenwell
Anxious futures in Colson Whitehead and Omar El Akkad
Conclusion Bibliography
