Chronotopes of the Uncanny

Time and Space in Postmodern New York Novels. Paul Auster's City of Glass and Toni Morrison's Jazz

Petra Eckhard author

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