Anna Hellén

Apocalyptic Territories (eBook, PDF)

Setting and Revelation in Contemporary American Fiction

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000032697
• Artikelnr.: 58644892

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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

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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

Rezensionen

"The book is poised to be a seminal study because of the uniqueness and clarity of its thesis. It is a text to which others will refer as they take on the study of place/space/geography in The Book of Revelation and other works of early, pre- and modern literature." -- Helen Doss, Wright College

"That which is distinct about this text is the nuanced and simultaneous audacious assertions about the role of place, space and geography in the context of apocalyptic texts, while maintaining that these texts include within them elements of redemption - this is a novel combination." -- Helen Doss, Wright College