Post-9/11 Historical Fiction and Alternate History Fiction: Transnational and Multidirectional Memory, Liao Pei-Chen

Автор: Kathleen Singles
Название: Alternate History: Playing with Contingency and Necessity
ISBN: 3110272172 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110272178
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
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Описание: While, strictly speaking, Alternate Histories are not Future Narratives, their analysis can shed a clear light on why Future Narratives are so different from past narratives. Trying to have it both ways, most Alternate Histories subscribe to a conflicting set of beliefs concerning determinism and freedom of choice, contingency and necessity. For the very first time, Alternate Histories are here discussed against the backdrop of their Other, Future Narratives. The volume contains in-depth analyses of the classics of the genre,such as Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle and Philip Roth's The Plot against America, as well as less widely-discussed manifestations of the genre, such as Dieter Kuhn's N,ChristianKracht'sIch werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten,and Quentin Tarantino's film Inglourious Basterds.