TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thoene,Marcel
TI  - Toward Diversity and Emancipation: (Re-)Narrating Space in the Contemporary American Novel 
T2  - Lettre
SN  - 9783839435083
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Bielefeld : 
PB  - transcript-Verlag, 
KW  - America
KW  - American Studies
KW  - Contemporary Novels
KW  - Cultural History
KW  - Diversity
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - Literature
KW  - Narrative Theory
KW  - Theory of Literature
KW  - Roman
KW  - gnd
KW  - Raum
KW  - Motiv
KW  - Nationalismus
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Vielfalt
KW  - Platz
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1.) Introduction. Contemporary American (Literary) Studies, the Spatial Turn and Narrativity --; 2.) Key Tropes of Space in U.S.-American Cultural History --; 3.) Literary Tradition: Space in Earlier Periods of U.S.-American Literature --; 4.) Re-Thinking Narrative Theory for Contemporary Literature --; 5.) Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections --; 6.) Toni Morrison's African American History Trilogy --; 7.) Luis Alberto Urrea - Into the Beautiful North --; 8.) Sherman Alexie - Reservation Blues --; 9.) Conclusion --; Works Cited; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839435083
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ER  -