Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Fiction
- The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Fiction
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Forms
- Part II Approaches
- 6 Afro-Futurism/Afro-Pessimism
- 7 Transpacific Diasporas
- 8 Hemispheric Routes
- 9 Transgender and Transgenre Writing
- 10 Climate Fiction
- Part III Themes
- Further Reading
- Index
8 - Hemispheric Routes
from Part II - Approaches
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 September 2021
- The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Fiction
- The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Fiction
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Forms
- Part II Approaches
- 6 Afro-Futurism/Afro-Pessimism
- 7 Transpacific Diasporas
- 8 Hemispheric Routes
- 9 Transgender and Transgenre Writing
- 10 Climate Fiction
- Part III Themes
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Mary Pat Brady’s chapter poses an alternative approach to hemispheric fiction by reading not according the scales of concentric geometries of space (local, regional, national, transnational), but instead reconceptualizing what she terms “pluriversal novels of the 21st century.” She argues for attending to the complexly mixed temporalities, perspectives, and languages of novels that reject the dualism of monoworlds (center/periphery) for the unpredictability of stories anchored in multiple space-times. While this is not an exclusively 21st-century phenomenon, she shows that pluriveral fiction has flourished recently, as works by Linda Hogan, Jennine Capó Crucet, Julia Alvarez, Gabby Rivera, Karen Tei Yamashita, Ana-Maurine Lara, and Evelina Zuni Lucero demonstrate.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Fiction , pp. 157 - 173Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021