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题名/责任者:

Apocalyptic territories : setting and revelation in contemporary American fiction / Anna Hellen.

出版发行项:

London : Routledge, 2021.

ISBN:

9781032238524

ISBN:

9780367896584

载体形态项:

142 pages ; 23 cm.

丛编说明:

Routledge studies in contemporary literature

个人责任者:

Hellen, Anna, author.

论题主题:

American fiction-20th century-History and criticism.

论题主题:

American fiction-21st century-History and criticism.

论题主题:

Apocalypse in literature.

论题主题:

Space in literature.

论题主题:

Boundaries in literature.

论题主题:

Setting (Literature)

论题主题:

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

中图法分类号:

I712.074

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [132]-138) and index.

内容附注:

Introduction -- 1. A Spatial Approach to Apocalypse -- 2. "That Theory of Paradise": Rick Moody's Suburban Apocalypse -- 3. "A City Better than Perfect": Harlem as the New Jerusalem in Toni Morrison's Jazz -- 4. McCarthy's Sourceless Apocalypse in Blood Meridian and The Road -- 5. Out of the Pit: Southern Apocalypse and the Female Body in Ward's Salvage the Bones -- 6. The Story is Telling Us: Apocalyptic Geopolitics in Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union -- Conclusion.

摘要附注:

"Research on the relationship between the apocalyptic tradition and the literary imagination has typically espoused a temporal approach which in one way or another revolves around the order of events that precedes the end of history and the ensuing establishment of a new world. This study, by contrast, explores the spatial dimensions of apocalypse, more precisely the way in which the settings of the Book of Revelation are taken up by contemporary American writers and related to more general but also more contested concerns of territorial integrity and national identity. Influenced by Lefebvre's theories, the study understands territory not simply as the container of certain structures and practices but also as the result of them, just as bird song is not framed by but rather constructive of territorial borders. It is the equivalent of such 'songs' that this book seeks to listen in on, i.e. the apocalyptic narratives that have been passed on through the centuries to define and sustain territory on a local, regional, and national level, and the way in which seven novels by Rick Moody, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, Cormac McCarthy, and Michael Chabon respond to them"--

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