@book{2016:thoene:toward_div, title = {Toward Diversity and Emancipation}, year = {2016}, note = {This book focuses on the pivotal role which space and spatiality assume in plot and narrative discourse of contemporary U.S.-American literary narratives. Embarking from a new, spatialized approach to cultural history and particularly narrative theory that might also prove useful for neighboring philologies, Marcel Thoene hypothesizes that the canon of novels selected represents a dialectic of simultaneous affirmation and subversion of the American space myth. This results in an integrative and emancipatory function of space reflecting the current dynamic toward a more transcultural, diverse and conflictive post-national U.S.-American society.}, edition = {1}, publisher = {transcript}, address = {Bielefeld}, series = {Lettre}, volume = {0}, author = {Thoene, Marcel} }