Toward Diversity and Emancipation —— (Re-)Narrating Space in the Contemporary American Novel

----- 走向多样性与解放：当代美国小说中的（再）叙事空间

ISBN: 9783839435083 出版年：2016 页码：336 Thoene, Marcel transcript-Verlag

This book focuses on the pivotal role which space and spatiality assume in plot and narrative discourse of contemporary U.S.-American literary narratives. Embarking from a new, spatialized approach to cultural history and particularly narrative theory that might also prove useful for neighboring philologies, Marcel Thoene hypothesizes that the canon of novels selected represents a dialectic of simultaneous affirmation and subversion of the American space myth. This results in an integrative and emancipatory function of space reflecting the current dynamic toward a more transcultural, diverse and conflictive post-national U.S.-American society.