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The Prenational Past in Postmodern Literature
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Artikel-Nr:
9781611462562
Veröffentl:
2018
Seiten:
186
Autor:
Christopher K. Coffman
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Rewriting Early America argues the need for a subtler understanding of how post-1945 literary figures represent America’s prenational past. Rather than focusing only on how literary representations of the national origins advance political critiques, this book also recognizes the recuperative visions founds in many recent novels and poems.
Recent poems and fictions set in the early Americas are typically read as affirmations of cultural norms, as evidence of the impossibility of genuine engagement with the historical past, or as contentious repudiations of received histories. Inspired particularly by Mihai Spariosu’s arguments regarding literary playfulness as an opening to peace, Rewriting Early America: The Prenational Past in Postmodern Literature adopts a different perspective, with the goal of demonstrating that many recent literary texts undertake more constructive and hopeful projects with regard to the American past than critics usually recognize. While honoring writers' pervasive critiques of hegemony, this volume trades a preoccupation with antagonism for an interest in restoration and recuperation. It describes how texts by John Barth, John Berryman, Susan Howe, Toni Morrison, Paul Muldoon, Thomas Pynchon, and William T. Vollmann harness the ambiguities of the colonial past to find sociocultural possibilities that operate beyond the workings of power and outside the politics of difference. Throughout, this book remains devoted to uncovering the moments at which contemporary writers proffer visions of American communities defined not by marginalization and oppression, but by responsive understanding and inclusion.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Contemporary American Literature and Early America
Introduction: Contemporary American Literature and Early America
Chapter 1: Berryman’s Bradstreet and the End(s) of New Criticism
Chapter 2: John Barth’s Metanarrative Critique, or, History as Literature as Reenactment
Chapter 3: Tradition and Critique in Paul Muldoon’s “Madoc: A Mystery”Chapter 4: Material Values in Pynchon and VollmannChapter 5: The New World(s) of Thomas Pynchon
Chapter 6: Silence and Places beyond Power in the Poetry of Susan Howe
Conclusion: The Problem of American Origins, Freedom from Power, and Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
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Index
About the Author