Intuitionists: History and the Affective Event.

An essay on two novels that are about the U.S. is presented. The novels are "The Intuitionist," by Colson Whitehead and "Pattern Recognition," by William Gibson which provide the main archive for tracking the building of an intuitive sense of the historical present in scenes of ongoing trauma or cri...

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Publicado en:American Literary History Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 845 - 861
Autor principal: Berlant, Lauren
Formato: Essay
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Winter2008
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Sumario:An essay on two novels that are about the U.S. is presented. The novels are "The Intuitionist," by Colson Whitehead and "Pattern Recognition," by William Gibson which provide the main archive for tracking the building of an intuitive sense of the historical present in scenes of ongoing trauma or crisis ordinariness.