Writing the Past in Twenty-First-Century American Fiction

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Writing the Past in Twenty-First-Century American Fiction is written by Alexandra Lawrie and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1474463460 (ISBN 10) and 9781474463461 (ISBN 13).

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.