Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Culture

The essays included in this collection offer an overview of literary works, films, TV series, and visual art which reflect the current (post-)millennial fascination with theorizing ends and beginnings. The contributions intend to x-ray the most crucial aspects of contemporary North-American literature and culture. Addressing a variety of media, the authors of the essays gathered in the book wonder at the ongoing spectacle of exhaustion and regeneration which is playing itself out on the American stage.

List of contents

Exhaustion - Regeneration - North-American literature and culture - Post-Millenial literature and culture - Film - TV series - Graphic novel - Cartoon - Multimedia - Music and art - US politics - Indigenous studies - Alienation - Healing - Subjectivity - Posthumanism - (Post-)Apocalypse - Neoliberalism - Eco-Aesthetics - Consumer culture

About the author

Julia Nikiel and Izabella Kimak work at the Department of American Literature and Culture at Maria-Curie Sk¿odowska University in Lublin, Poland. They created and coordinate the ExRe(y) project and organize its biannual conferences.

Product details

• Assisted by: Izabella Kimak (Editor), Julia Nikiel (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783631795576
• ISBN: 978-3-631-79557-6
• No. of pages: 196
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 18 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 329 g
• Illustrations: 4 Abb.
• Series: New Americanists in Poland
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics