Toward Diversity and Emancipation: (Re-)Narrating Space in the Contemporary American Novel (Lettre)

Toward Diversity and Emancipation: (Re-)Narrating Space in the Contemporary American Novel (Lettre)
by: Marcel Thoene (Author)
Publisher:Transcript Verlag
Publication Date: 15 Jun. 2016
Language:English
Print Length:336 pages
ISBN-10:3837635082
ISBN-13:9783837635089
Book Description
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 hypothesises 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.
About the Author
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 hypothesises 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.