The Public Mind and the Politics of Postmillennial U.S.-American Writing

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-11-077128-2
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 79, 285 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 548 g

Reihe: Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series

In the last twenty years, how has U.S.-American writing and the reading public responded to the complexity of an American culture resolutely situated in a larger, highly politicized, globalized world undergoing radical change? The 20th-century modes of realism and postmodernism have been succeeded by writerly practices that are that are invested in the idea of embodied ‘authenticity’ and that are relatable to neorealism, whether it be via outright affirmation or critical experimentation and appropriation. The individual case studies mark the ways in which postmillennial U.S.-American writing is marked by an ongoing awareness toward complexity and the entanglement of writers and the reading public with pressing political concerns, and, at times oppressive, social and economic discursive and structural formations. These contributions further attest to how narrative and structural complexity, grammatical and lexical sophistication, and social nuance endure as the main literary modes of confronting 21st-century political life. This volume is thus of interest for both the study of U.S.-American political culture and U.S.-American literature.

Zielgruppe

Literary studies scholars, historians, cultural studies scholars,

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mathieson, Jolene

Henderson, Marius

Lange, Julia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

J. Mathieson, Leipzig University; M. Henderson, Friedrich–Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg; J. Lange, University of Hamburg.