Counternarratives
By: John Keene
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780811224345
Subjects: American Short stories; Slavery; Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: Ranging from the 17th century to our current moment, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives' stories and novellas draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculative fiction to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present.
Table of contents: title: Mannahatta --; title: On Brazil, or, Dénouement : the Londônias-Figueiras --; title: An outtake from the ideological origins of the American Revolution --; title: A letter on the trials of the counterreformation in New Lisbon --; title: Gloss, or, The strange history of Our Lady of the Sorrows --; title: The aeronauts --; title: Rivers --; title: Persons and places --; title: Acrobatique --; title: Cold --; title: Blues --; title: Anthropophagy --; title: The lions.