The public mind and the politics of postmillennial U.S.-American writing
Mathieson J, Henderson M, Lange J (2022)
Publication Type: Authored book
Publication year: 2022
Publisher: De Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110771350
DOI: 10.1515/9783110771350-002
Abstract
The first chapter of The Public Mind and the Politics of Postmillennial U.S.-American Writing initially traces and recounts some of the major developments to have taken place in U.S.-American fiction in the last twenty years. Traditional, 20th-century modes of realism and postmodernism have since been succeeded by writerly practices that, in one way or another, are relatable to neorealism, whether it be via outright affirmation or critical experimentation and appropriation. The re-emergence of investments in notions formerly combatted by postmodernists, such as embodied "authenticity," is accompanied by an ongoing awareness toward complexity and the fundamental entanglement of writers, critics, and the reading public with pressing political concerns, and at times oppressive, social and economic discursive and structural formations. The introduction provides an overview of all three sections of this volume's collection of essays as well as of each its fourteen chapters. All contributions share said awareness toward the seemingly inextricable intertwinement of postmillennial U.S.-American writing with the reading public as well as the extratextual contexts in which it is embedded, whether this writing be novelistic or more experimental.
Authors with CRIS profile
Marius Henderson
Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere nordamerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
Involved external institutions
Germany (DE)How to cite
APA:
Mathieson, J., Henderson, M., & Lange, J. (2022). The public mind and the politics of postmillennial U.S.-American writing. De Gruyter.
MLA:
Mathieson, Jolene, Marius Henderson, and Julia Lange. The public mind and the politics of postmillennial U.S.-American writing. De Gruyter, 2022.
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