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This book explores the major challenges that the long-standing and diversely debated demise of postmodernism signifies for American literature, art, culture, history, and politics, in the present, third decade of the twenty-first century. Its scope comprises a vigorous discussion of all these diverse fields undertaken by distinguished scholars as well as junior researchers, U.S. Americanists and European Americanists alike. Focusing on socio-political and cultural developments in the contemporary U.S., their contributions highlight the interconnectedness of the geopolitical, economic, environmental and technological crises that define the historical present on global scale.
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List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: American Studies after Postmodernism.- Chapter 2: The Last Word: Writing in a Time of Emergency.- Part One: A Moment of Exigency.- Chapter 3: Post-2020 Vision: The Alternative Universes of Future U.S. Election Campaigns.- Chapter 4: Studying America (photographically): from Walker Evans to Taryn Simon.- Chapter 5: Sustainable American Studies: Intermedial Approaches to Climate Change.- Chapter 6: Posthuman(ist), Affective and Global Turns in Ecofiction and Ecocriticism: Philip Armstrong's "Litter".- Part Two: Continuities.- Chapter 7: Postmodernist Latinx Fiction in the 21st Century? The Writings of Giannina Braschi.- Chapter 8: Intersectionally Aware Urban Re-mappings of Self and Belonging after Postmodernism: Reading Angie Cruz's Dominicana.- Chapter 9: Aspects of Mediation: Deceit, Desire and Post-Postmodernity in Paul Auster's The Locked Room.- Chapter 10: Juxtaposing Postmodernist and Classic Narratives in New Literacies: The Case of Role-Playing Games.- Part Three: 21st century Tropisms.- Chapter 11: The Metamodernist Epiphanies of Daytripper.- Chapter 12: Transcultural with a Twist: Reading Americanah Contrapuntally.- Chapter 13: The American Photo-novel in the 21st century: Familial Ties and Historical Kinship in Emma Donoghue's Akin.- Chapter 14: Literary Translingualism in the 21st century: Mobilizing Affect through Language.- Chapter 15: Electronic Literature at the Dawn of the 21st century: the Case of Reiner Strasser and M.D. Coverley's ii-in the white darkness: about [the fragility of] memory.- Chapter 16: Paradigms of Cyberculturalism in Post-postmodernity.
