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dc.contributor.authorFERNANDEZ-SANTIAGO, MIRIAM
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-02T12:49:27Z
dc.date.available2023-10-02T12:49:27Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76527
dc.description.abstractJennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach (2017) narrates the misadventures of young Irish Catholic Anna Kerrigan in her pursuit of a diving career in the New York docks during WWII. These misadventures are heavily conditioned by the accumulation of a series of structural vulnerabilities intersecting class, gender, religion, immigration, and disability, as well as political and economic corruption, which are emphasized against the backdrop of an impossible American Dream. The structural oppressions visibilized by Egan in this novel will thus serve to reflect on how the purported national invulnerability underlying USA’s imperialism in the second half of the 20th century was in fact based on obscuring national vulnerabilities that strongly resonate at the beginning of the new millennium. This chapter explores Egan’s formal experimentation with historical fiction as a calculated risk that draws its narrative strengths from the spectacularization of vulnerability while exposing the novel’s formal belatedness as a case of vulnerable narrative.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.otherManhattan Beach, Jennifer Egen, oppression, spectacularizationen_US
dc.titleChapter 4 Pretty Dolls Don’t Play Diceen_US
dc.title.alternativeThe Calculated Vulnerabilities of Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach (2017)en_US
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781032130323-5en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bben_US
oapen.relation.isPartOfBookea51c79a-9a33-4946-8aa2-e65d2ef4ceaden_US
oapen.relation.isFundedByJunta de Andalucíaen_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032130316en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032424057en_US
oapen.imprintRoutledgeen_US
oapen.pages16en_US
oapen.remark.publicConsejería de Universidad, Investigación e Innovación de la Junta de Andalucía
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peerreview.review.stagePre-publication
peerreview.review.typeProposal
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