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This volume offers an overview of the major transitions that occurred in American literary culture between 2000 and 2010.
List of contents
Introduction Rachel Greenwald Smith; Part I. Formal Transitions: 1. 'Post'-ethnic form Elda María Román; 2. Gender, sexuality, and new queer forms T. Jackie Cuevas; 3. Formally conventional fiction Adam Kelly; 4. Literary genre fiction Andrew Hoberek; 5. New wave fabulism and hybrid science fictions Kate Marshall; 6. The televisual novel Phillip Maciak; Part II. The Return of Authenticity: 7. Neorealist fiction Lee Konstantinou; 8. Memoir Daniel Worden; 9. Historical fiction and the end of history Mitchum Huehls; 10. Literature after 9/11 Georgiana Banita; 11. The neuronovel Stephen J. Burn; Part III. Digital Revolutions: 12. Information Lindsay Thomas; 13. Electronic literature Brian Kim Stefans; 14. Social networks Scott Selisker; 15. Conceptual writing Jennifer Ashton; Part IV. Transnational Currents: 16. Financialization Annie McClanahan; 17. Borders and migrations Emilio Sauri; 18. War on terror Timothy Melley; Part V. The Ecological Turn: 19. New directions in ecocriticism Janet Fiskio and Sophia Bamert; 20. Climate change fiction Matthew Schneider-Mayerson; 21. Ecopoetics Jonathan Skinner; Part VI. Institutional Shifts: 22. Little magazines, blogs, and literary media Evan Kindley; 23. Publishing in the age of Amazon Loren Glass; 24. Creative writing, cultural studies, and the university Eric Bennett; Afterword: the 2000s after 2016 Rachel Greenwald Smith.
About the author
Rachel Greenwald Smith is the author of Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism (Cambridge, 2015) and the co-editor, with Mitchum Huehls, of Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture (2017). She is a recipient of a Ryskamp Research Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, and her essays have appeared in American Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Mediations, Twentieth Century Literature, and The Account. She is Associate Professor of English at Saint Louis University, Missouri.
Summary
Crafted for general readers, students, and scholars alike, this volume charts recent transformations in American literature. It covers a wide range of topics - from genre fiction and the rise of Amazon to the literature of 9/11 and the prominence of digital technology in literary culture.
