Amnesia and Redress in Contemporary American Fiction

1. Prologue
Marni Gauthier

2. Introduction: Contemporary Historical Fiction and a Politics of Truth
Marni Gauthier

3. “The Downfall of the Empire and the Emergence of Detergents”: Underhistory in Don DeLillo’s Historical Novels
Marni Gauthier

4. The Other Side of Paradise: Toni Morrison’s (Un)Making of Mythic History
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5. A Politics of Truth and the Transnational Comm(unity) of Abolitionists: Michelle Cliff’s Free Enterprise

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6. Transnational Empire and Its Exuberant (Dis)Contents: Bharati Mukherjee’s Holder of the World

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7. Truth-telling Fiction in a Post-9/11 World: Don DeLillo’s Falling Man and Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor Was Divine

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8. Epilogue: Looking Back Is Looking Forward
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Keywords: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, North American Literature, Cultural Anthropology