Postmodernism, Twenty-First Century Culture, and American Fiction
Establishing the Continuum
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Postmodernism, Twenty-First Century Culture, and American Fiction
Establishing the Continuum
About this book
Postmodernism's 'end' is a complex and contentious topic. Yet, one overarching consensus emerges: the postmodern has been surpassed. This book poses a thought experiment challenging this position – what if postmodernism persists within the twenty-first century?
Rather than designate a new epoch or coherent movement, this book interrogates the fragmented, contradictory, and counterintuitive endurance of postmodern aesthetics within post-Cold War America. An alternative use of postmodern aesthetics becomes possible when they are decoupled from their twentieth-century historical location. Collectively, these repetitions posit a postmodern continuum, contrasting the widely called-for succession of postmodernism via this decoupling. When postmodern aesthetics are no longer unconsciously repeated within their cultural moment, this emergent shift within a period 'after' postmodernism presents an alternative historical positioning and use. After their cultural vanguard, postmodern aesthetics become a confrontation of the chaotic realism of an inescapable post-Cold War capitalism, tapping into this cultural zeitgeist through literature.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Hallucinatory Reality, Unreliable Narration: From American Psycho to Post-Truth America
- 2 Terroristic Nihilism in Empire of the Senseless and Fight Club: The Constructive Limits of Violence After the End of History
- 3 Revitalizing Transgressive Excess: Limitation, Waste & Reuse in Love Creeps and Sadie: The Sadist
- 4 Digital Regression: Mourning, Reuse & ‘Bad’ Reading in God Jr. and Zac’s Control Panel
- 5 Contesting Categorization: Subjectivity, Race & Metafiction in Percival Everett by Virgil Russell and The Sympathizer
- 6 The Politics of Repetition: Nostalgia, Appropriation & Postmodern Aesthetics in Taipei and You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
- Conclusion
- Index