The Historical Novel Transnationalism And The Postmodern Era

Author : Susan Brantly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315386454

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The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era by Susan Brantly Pdf

This volume explores the genre of the historical novel and the variety of ways in which writers choose to represent the past. How does an author’s nationality or gender impact their artistic choices? To what extent can historical novels appeal to a transnational audience? This study demonstrates how histories can communicate across national borders, often by invoking or deconstructing the very notion of nationhood. Furthermore, it traces how the concerns of the postmodern era, such as postmodern critiques of historiography, colonialism, identity, and the Enlightenment, have impacted the genre of the historical novel, and shows this impact has not been uniform throughout Western culture. Not all historical novels written during the postmodern era are postmodern. The historical novel as a genre occupies a problematic, yet significant space in Cold War literary currents, torn between claims of authenticity and the impossibility of accessing the past. Historical novels from England, America, Germany, and France are compared and contrasted with historical novels from Sweden, testing a variety of theoretical perspectives in the process. This pitting of a center against a periphery serves to highlight traits that historical novels from the West have in common, but also how they differ. The historical novel is not just a local, regional phenomenon, but has become, during the postmodern era, a transnational tool for exploring how we should think of nations and nationalism and what a society should, or should not, look like.

Author : Kai Wiegandt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110688726

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The Transnational in Literary Studies by Kai Wiegandt Pdf

This volume clarifies the meanings and applications of the concept of the transnational and identifies areas in which the concept can be particularly useful. The division of the volume into three parts reflects areas which seem particularly amenable to analysis through a transnational lens. The chapters in Part 1 present case studies in which the concept replaces or complements traditionally dominant concepts in literary studies. These chapters demonstrate, for example, why some dramatic texts and performances can better be described as transnational than as postcolonial, and how the transnational underlies and complements concepts such as world literature. Part 2 assesses the advantages and limitations of writing literary history with a transnational focus. These chapters illustrate how such a perspective loosens the epistemic stranglehold of national historiographies, but they also argue that the transnational and national agendas of literary historiography are frequently entangled. The chapters in Part 3 identify transnational genres such as the transnational historical novel, transnational migrant fiction and translinguistic theatre, and analyse the specific poetics and politics of these genres.

Author : Susan Strehle
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030554668

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Contemporary Historical Fiction, Exceptionalism and Community by Susan Strehle Pdf

This book analyzes a significant group of contemporary historical fictions that represent damaging, even catastrophic times for people and communities; written “after the wreck,” they recall instructive pasts. The novels chronicle wars, slavery, racism, child abuse and genocide; they reveal damages that ensue when nations claim an exalted, exceptionalist identity and violate the human rights of their Others. In sympathy with the exiled, writers of these contemporary historical fictions create alternative communities on the state’s outer fringes. These fictive communities include where the state excludes; they foreground relations of debt and obligation to the group in place of individualism, competition and private property. Rather than assimilating members to a single identity with a unified set of views, the communities open multiple possibilities for belonging. Analyzing novels from Britain, Australia and the U.S., along with additional transnational examples, Susan Strehle explores the political vision animating some contemporary historical fictions.

Author : Elisabeth Wesseling
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027222121

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Writing History as a Prophet by Elisabeth Wesseling Pdf

This is a postmodernist history of the historical novel with special attention to the political implications of the postmodernist attitude toward the past. Beginning with the poetics of Sir Walter Scott, Wesseling moves via a global survey of 19th century historical fiction to modernist innovations in the genre. Noting how the self-reflexive strategy enables a novelist to represent an episode from the past alongside the process of gathering and formulating historical knowledge, the author discusses the elaboration of this strategy, introduced by novelists such as Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, in the work of, among others, Julian Barnes, Jay Cantor, Robert Coover and Graham Swift.Wesseling also shows how postmodernist writers attempt to envisage alternative sequences for historical events. Deliberately distorting historical facts, authors of such uchronian fiction, like Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael R. Read, Salman Rushdie and Gunter Grass, imagine what history looks like from the perspective of the losers, rather than the winners.

Author : Ruth Maxey
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030418977

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21st Century US Historical Fiction by Ruth Maxey Pdf

This new collection examines important US historical fiction published since 2000. Exploring historical novels by established American writers such as Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, E.L. Doctorow, Chang-rae Lee, James McBride, Susan Choi, and George Saunders, the book also includes chapters on first-time novelists. Individual essays in 21st Century US Historical Fiction: Contemporary Responses to the Past tackle prominent and provocative new novels, for example, recent Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction by Anthony Doerr, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Colson Whitehead. Interrogating such key themes as war, race, sexuality, trauma and childhood; notions of genre and periodization; and recent theorizations of historical fiction, scholars from the United States, Canada, Britain and Ireland analyze an emerging canon of contemporary historical fiction by an ethno-racially diverse range of major American writers.

Author : Shun-Liang Chao,John Michael Corrigan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429516238

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Romantic Legacies by Shun-Liang Chao,John Michael Corrigan Pdf

Romantic Legacies: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts presents the most wide-ranging treatment of Romantic regenerations, covering the cross-pollination between the arts or between art and thought in Germany, Britain, France, the US, Russia, India, China, and Japan. Each chapter in the volume examines a legacy or afterlife in a comparative context to demonstrate ongoing Romantic legacies as fully as possible in their complexity and richness. The volume provides readers a lens through which to understand Romanticism not merely as an artistic heritage but as a dynamic site of intellectual engagement that crosses nations and time periods and entails no less than the shaping of our global cultural currents.

Author : Aleksandar Stevic,Philip Tai-Hang Tsang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429638176

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The Limits of Cosmopolitanism by Aleksandar Stevic,Philip Tai-Hang Tsang Pdf

This book examines the limits of cosmopolitanism in contemporary literature. In a world in which engagement with strangers is no longer optional, and in which the ubiquitous demands of globalization clash with resurgent localist and nationalist sentiments, cosmopolitanism is no longer merely a horizon-broadening aspiration but a compulsory order of things to which we are all conscripted. Focusing on literary texts from such diverse locales as England, Algeria, Sweden, former Yugoslavia, and the Sudan, the essays in this collection interrogate the tensions and impasses in our prison-house of cosmopolitanism.

Author : Tim van Gerven
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004507357

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Scandinavism: Overlapping and Competing Identities in the Nordic World, 1770-1919 by Tim van Gerven Pdf

Through an in-depth analysis of historicist literature and art, this book demonstrates that cultural Scandinavism, despite its failure as a political mobilizer, was highly successful in strengthening and extending national consciousness-raising in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.

Author : Pirjo Lyytikäinen,Riikka Rossi,Viola Parente-Čapková,Mirjam Hinrikus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429655425

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Nordic Literature of Decadence by Pirjo Lyytikäinen,Riikka Rossi,Viola Parente-Čapková,Mirjam Hinrikus Pdf

Nordic Literature of Decadence fills a gap on the map of world literature and participates in a thriving area of research by extending the investigation of broadly understood fin de siècle decadence to unexplored areas of Nordic literature, which remain practically unknown to Anglophone audiences. In the Nordic countries the new Parisian movements were seen as having caused a malicious invasion, a ‘black flood’ that was spreading over the North destroying the very foundations of Nordic national cultures. Nevertheless, the appeal of this controversial movement was irresistible to discontents and innovators, even in countries where the old moral, religious and nationalist atmosphere still retained its stranglehold and modern urban, industrial and social developments lagged behind that of the metropoles breeding this new literature and art. The Nordic countries developed their own distinctive manifestations of decadence favouring allegorical and allusive forms, local rural settings and depictions of primitive nature, coupling the philosophical underpinnings of fin-de-siècle decadence with ancient Nordic mythology and rising national movements. Nordic decadence thus became a distinctive and recognizable phenomenon, which travelled back to France and other European countries, influencing the ongoing debate on decadence as it was conducted on a global scale. Nordic Literature of Decadence discusses literature from five Nordic countries: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Estonia and offers additional and alternative perspectives to the cosmopolitan traffic and cultural exchanges of literary decadence that have been explored so far in the English language scholarship.

Author : Steven F Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429861086

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Cryptic Subtexts in Literature and Film by Steven F Walker Pdf

One of the primary objectives of comparative literature is the study of the relationship of texts, also known as intertextuality, which is a means of contextualizing and analyzing the way literature grows and flourishes through inspiration and imitation, direct or indirect. When the inspiration and imitation is direct and obvious, the study of this rapport falls into the more restricted category of hypertextuality. What the author has labeled a cryptic subtext, however, is an extreme case of hypertextuality. It involves a series of allusions to another text that have been deliberately inserted by the author into the primary text as potential points of reference. This book takes a deep dive into a broad array of literature and film to explore these allusions and the hidden messages therein.

Author : Daniel K. Jernigan,Walter Wadiak,Michelle Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429755675

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Narrating Death by Daniel K. Jernigan,Walter Wadiak,Michelle Wang Pdf

Drawing on literary and visual texts spanning from the twelfth century to the present, this volume of essays explores what happens when narratives try to push the boundaries of what can be said about death.

Author : Vinicius Mariano De Carvalho,Nicola Gavioli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315386362

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Literature and Ethics in Contemporary Brazil by Vinicius Mariano De Carvalho,Nicola Gavioli Pdf

When Brazil was honored at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2013, the Brazilian author Luiz Ruffato opened the event with a provocative speech, claiming that literature, through its pervasive depiction and discussion of ‘otherness,’ has the potential to provoke ethical transformation. This book uses Ruffato’s speech as a starting point for the discussion of contemporary Brazilian literature that stands in contrast to the repetition of social and cultural clichés. By illuminating the relevance of humanities and literature as a catalyst for rethinking Brazil, the book offers a resistance to the official discourses that have worked for so long to conceal social tensions, injustices, and secular inequities in Brazilian society. In doing so, it situates Brazilian literature away from the exotic and peripheral spectrum, and closer to a universal and more relevant ethical discussion for readers from all parts of the world. The volume brings together fresh contributions on both canonical contemporary authors such as Graciliano Ramos, Rubem Fonseca, and Dalton Trevisan, and traditionally silenced writing subjects such as Afro-Brazilian female authors. Essays deal with specific contemporary literary and social issues while engaging with historically constitutive phenomena in Brazil, including authoritarianism, violence, and the systematic violation of human rights. The exploration of diverse literary genres -- from novels to graphic novels, from poetry to crônicas -- and engagement with postcolonial studies, gender studies, queer studies, cultural studies, Brazilian studies, South American literature, and world literature carves new space for the emergence of an original Brazilian thought.

Author : Tegan Zimmerman
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643905604

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Writing Back Through Our Mothers by Tegan Zimmerman Pdf

For the first time in the literary tradition, the contemporary woman's historical novel (post-1970) is surveyed from a transnational feminist perspective. Analyzing the maternal (the genre's central theme) reveals that historical fiction is a transnational feminist means for challenging historical erasures, silences, normative sexuality, political exclusion, and divisions of labor. (Series: Contributions to Transnational Feminism - Vol. 5)

Author : Polina Mackay,Kathryn Nicol
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443808309

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Kathy Acker and Transnationalism by Polina Mackay,Kathryn Nicol Pdf

Since Kathy Acker's death in 1997 the body of critical work on her fiction has continued to grow, and even to flourish. The continuing critical attention that her work has received is testament both to the complexity and intellectual scope of her many artistic and critical projects, and to the continuing relevance of her concerns and ambitions in the recent and contemporary world; a world that her fictions prefigure and interrogate in ways that we perhaps could not have recognized during her lifetime. This collection of essays provides readers with access to a range of critical and theoretical essays that present a detailed analysis of transnationalism in Kathy Acker’s fiction. A wider aim of this book is to locate Acker’s work in the context of current debates on transnationalism, postnationalism, and global identity. Kathy Acker and Transnationalism therefore constitutes a timely re-appraisal of an important American writer, and a contribution to the growing field of studies in transnationalism.

Author : Theo D'haen,Hans Bertens,Johannes Willem Bertens
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9051838506

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Narrative Turns and Minor Genres in Postmodernism by Theo D'haen,Hans Bertens,Johannes Willem Bertens Pdf