Chronotopes of the Uncanny
Time and Space in Postmodern New York Novels. Paul Auster's City of Glass and Toni Morrison's Jazz
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Transcript Verlag
Published:27th Jul '11
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Using the theoretical frameworks of Freud, Todorov, and Bahktin, this book explores how American writers of the late 20th century have translated the psychoanalytical concept of »the uncanny« into their novelistic discourses. The two texts under scrutiny - Paul Auster's »City of Glass« and Toni Morrison's »Jazz« - show that the uncanny has developed into a crucial trope to delineate personal and collective fears that are often grounded on the postmodern disruption of spatio-temporal continuities and coherences.
Besprochen in: Kronoscope, 16 (2016), Raphaelle Beauregard
ISBN: 9783837618419
Dimensions: 23mm x 14mm x 2mm
Weight: 992g
206 pages