Overview
- Highlights the evolving relationship between memory, identity, and violence in a transnational age
- Provides an overview of the boom in American historical fiction and alternate history fiction
- Takes a decentered approach to studying post-9/11 fiction through the lens of ethnic minority groups
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (7 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Drawing on theories of historiography, memory, and diaspora, as well as from existing genre studies, this book explores why contemporary writers are so fascinated with history. Pei-chen Liao considers how fiction contributes to the making and remaking of the transnational history of the U.S. by thinking beyond and before 9/11, investigating how the dynamics of memory, as well as the emergent present, influences readers’ reception of historical fiction and alternate history fiction and their interpretation of the past. Set against the historical backdrop of WWII, the Vietnam War, and the War on Terror, the novels under discussion tell Jewish, Japanese, white American, African, Muslim, and Native Americans’ stories of trauma and survival. As a means to transmit memories of past events, these novels demonstrate how multidirectional memory can be not only collective but connective, as exemplified by the echoes that post-9/11 readers hear between different histories of violence that thenovels chronicle, as well as between the past and the present.
Reviews
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Pei-chen Liao is Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, and the winner of the 2017 FAOS Innovative Young Scholar Award. Her publications include‘Post’-9/11 South Asian Diasporic Fiction (2013) and articles in Life Writing, Review of English and American Literature, EurAmerica, and several other journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Post-9/11 Historical Fiction and Alternate History Fiction
Book Subtitle: Transnational and Multidirectional Memory
Authors: Pei-chen Liao
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52492-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52491-3Published: 20 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52494-4Published: 20 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-52492-0Published: 19 September 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 203
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Literary History, Fiction, North American Literature, American Culture, Memory Studies