Authority and the Historical Document in Late Twentieth Century - Literatur

After the Fact: Authority and the Historical Document in Late Twentieth-Century Literature examines six historiographic metafiction novels that critically employ archival documents. The writers endeavor ethical and critical projects that reveal how authority is constructed in historical records, comprised of an array of genres that perform ideological work.

Sommario

Chapter 1: Nor Can the Living Speak for the Dead: D. M. Thomas's The White Hotel and the Limits of Early Holocaust Survivor Testimony
Chapter 2: Recovering the Slave Narrative, Recovering Identity: History and Toni Morrison's Beloved
Chapter 3: "centuries roam audible silence": Susan Howe's Singularities and the Articulation of Difference in the American Indian Captivity Narrative
Chapter 4: "Theland isours": Reading the Land and Breaking the Treaty in Hannah Weiner's Spoke
Chapter 5: "In my opinion she is guilty as sin": (de)Constructing the Murderess in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace
Chapter 6: A Brief History of Time: Poetry and the Press in Robert Coover's The Public Burning
Conclusion: The Work of Forms After Authority

Info autore

By Elizabeth Rich

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Elizabeth Rich, Rich Elizabeth
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781793644831
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-483-1
• Pagine: 242
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000