Chapter 4 Pretty Dolls Don’t Play Dice
Jennifer 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, g...
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| description | Jennifer 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1220832025-06-24T06:56:16Z Chapter 4 Pretty Dolls Don’t Play Dice FERNANDEZ-SANTIAGO, MIRIAM Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egen, oppression, spectacularization Jennifer 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. 2023-11-17T09:25:47Z 2023-11-17T09:25:47Z 2023-10-02T12:49:27Z 2023 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76527 9781032130316 9781032424057 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/122083 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76527/8/9781032130323_10.4324_9781032130323-5.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76527/8/9781032130323_10.4324_9781032130323-5.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76527/8/9781032130323_10.4324_9781032130323-5.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781032130323-5 10.4324/9781032130323-5 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature Junta de Andalucía 9781032130316 9781032424057 Routledge 16 open access |
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