Titlebook: Contemporary Historical Fiction, Exceptionalism and Community; After the Wreck Susan Strehle Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and Th

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Book 2020assimilating members to a single identity with a unified set of views, the communities open multiple possibilities for belonging. Analyzing novels from Britain, Australia and the U.S., along with additional transnational examples, Susan Strehle explores the political vision animating some contemporary historical fictions. .

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M. D. Wright,N. T. Plant,R. H. Brown the expansive potential of the genre, the chapter concludes with Barbara Kingsolver’s .: the novel’s strategic juxtaposition of current and past crises calls for a paradigm shift, for greater attention to and care for communal action and responsibility, for community itself.

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Book 2020s; written “after the wreck,” they recall instructive pasts.  The novels chronicle wars, slavery, racism, child abuse and genocide; they reveal damages that ensue when nations claim an exalted, exceptionalist identity and violate the human rights of their Others. In sympathy with the exiled, writers

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D. Mendlovic,Z. Zalevsky,A. W. Lohmannf community, drawing on thinkers who develop ethical and inclusive models. Replacing a vision of the exceptional state as an ahistorical polity of the privileged, contemporary historical fictions imagine diverse communities of obligation, kinship, duty, and service.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5040-8ecent trilogies by Hilary Mantel and Amitav Ghosh establish differences between recovering positive heroic legacies in history and representing wreckage. Mantel’s trilogy recovers the origins of modern British democracy, while Ghosh’s represents the catastrophic opium trade with its devastations of subaltern lives.

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D. Graham Holmes,Christopher B. Lorencer addresses formal implications: the novel’s fragmentation of time reflects the disruption of Western myths of coherent progress and reason in war, while its inclusive focus on multiple characters foregrounds the communities that coalesce amid war’s forced precarity.

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P. Ferrand,S. Aubert,G. Oliveira,L. Smatirauma. It explores the powerful practices of the novel’s kinship collective and argues that Erdrich’s perspective, a multiple inward-looking omniscience, places characters in relationship and represents a collective rather than an individual.

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,Near — Infrared Diode Laser Air Monitoring,’s events but also the vehicle through which the characters’ renewal is achieved. Unusual in its combination of tragedy, farcical caricature, satiric critique, and comedy, the novel expands the capacious genre of historical fiction with a comic vision of life and death.