Apocalyptic Territories: Setting and Revelation in Contemporary American Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781032238524 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 150 str.

Anna Hell?n

Opis

This study 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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Anna Hellén is an associate professor at Borås University, Sweden. She has previously held positions at Gothenburg University and Lund University in addition to a visiting fellowship at Harvard University made possible by a grant from the Sweden-America Foundation. Her main research fields are American nineteenth-century literature, particularly Herman Melville, and contemporary American literature.