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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Contemporary Historical Fiction: Exceptionalism and Community After the Wreck,f 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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Historical Fiction and Wreckage: Hilary Mantel and Amitav Ghosh,ecent 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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Slavery and the Maroon Community: Barry Unsworth, , egalitarian sociality based on trade and sharing in the Maroon community. The chapter establishes the narrative’s use of omniscience to create a broadly inclusive text, while it replaces imperial certainty with an inclusive, empathetic perspective.

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War and Communities of Suffering: Richard Flanagan, ,r 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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Indian Schools and Kinship Communities: Louise Erdrich, ,rauma. 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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Disavowed Others and Ghostly Communities: George Saunders, ,’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.

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Susan StrehleFocuses on the political and ethical content of new historical fiction.Adapts the concept of exceptionalism from American studies.Studies fictional communities that emerge in spite of oppression by th

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