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DESCRIPTION:Contemporary fiction has never been less contemporary. Writing 
 Backwards documents how the historical novel took over American literature
 \, and how the push to recover lost or overlooked histories has affected w
 riters of color most of all.\n\nAlexander Manshel investigates the most ce
 lebrated historical genres—contemporary narratives of slavery\, the World 
 War II novel\, the multigenerational family saga\, immigrant fiction\, and
  the novel of recent history—alongside the literary institutions that have
  elevated them. The book examines the work of Toni Morrison\, Viet Thanh N
 guyen\, Colson Whitehead\, Julia Alvarez\, Leslie Marmon Silko\, Michael C
 habon\, Julie Otsuka\, Yaa Gyasi\, Ben Lerner\, and Tommy Orange\, among o
 thers. Writing Backwards uncovers how the newly inclusive literary canon c
 ame to exist\, as well as who and what it still excludes.\n\nJoin the auth
 or\, Prof. Alexander Manshel\, Assistant Professor of English at McGill Un
 iversity\, in conversation with Prof. Ara Osterweil.\n
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LOCATION:CA\, QC\, Montréal\, H2W 1J3\, De Stiil Books\, 351 Avenue Duluth
SUMMARY:Book Launch: Alexander Manshel's 'Writing Backwards'
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/english/channels/event/book-launch-prof-manshels-
 writing-backwards
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