Toward Diversity and Emancipation : (Re-)Narrating Space in the Contemporary American Novel / Marcel Thoene.

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

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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.

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In English.

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