Title: Amnesia and redress in contemporary American fiction
Description: Introduction: contemporary historical fiction and a politics of truth -- The downfall of the empire and the emergence of detergents: underhistory in Don DeLillo's historical novels -- The other side of paradise: Toni Morrison's (un)making of mythic history -- A politics of truth and the transnational comm(unity) of abolitionists: Michelle Cliff's Free enterprise -- Transnational empire and its exuberant (dis)contents: Bharati Mukherjee's Holder of the world -- Truth-telling fiction in a post-9/11 world: Don Delillo's Falling man and Julie Otsuka's When the emperor was divine -- Epilogue: looking back is looking forward.
Subjects: Truthfulness and falsehood in literature, American fiction, History and criticism, Collective memory in literature, Memory, American fiction, history and criticism, Social aspects, Political aspects, LITERARY CRITICISM, American, General, Literary studies: from c 1900, English, Literary theory, Literature
Places: United States