Toward Diversity and Emancipation - (Re-)Narrating Space in the Contemporary American Novel

This book focuses on the pivotal role which space and spatiality assume in plot and narrative discourse of contemporary U.S.-American literary narratives. Embarking from a new, spatialized approach to cultural history and particularly narrative theory that might also prove useful for neighboring philologies, Marcel Thoene hypothesizes that the canon of novels selected represents a dialectic of simultaneous affirmation and subversion of the American space myth. This results in an integrative and emancipatory function of space reflecting the current dynamic toward a more transcultural, diverse and conflictive post-national U.S.-American society.

About the author

Marcel Thoene (Dr.) studied English and American Literature at Bielefeld University and SUNY Albany. His research interests include the American novel, early American literature as well as theories of American culture and history and literary theory.

Product details

• Authors: Marcel Thoene
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2016
• EAN: 9783837635089
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-3508-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 228 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 549 g
• Series: Lettre; Lettre
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Literaturwissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Englisch, Literaturtheorie, Amerikanistik, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, England / Sprache, Anglistik / Amerikanisch, Amerikanische Literatur / Amerikanistik, Space; America; Narrative Theory; Contemporary Novels; Cultural History; Literature; American Studies; Theory of Literature; Literary Studies