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The American Novel in the 21st Century

Cultural Contexts - Literary Developments - Critical Analyses
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
400 Seiten
Englisch
Focusing on the ways in which contemporary fiction and new genres of the novel are entangled with a variety of societal challenges and concerns, the aim of this volume is to provide students, university teachers, and literary scholars with a compact overview of the US-American novel in the first two decades of the new millennium. What are the dominant themes and recurring topics of recent American novels? How can the cultural dynamics of literary change in contemporary fiction be conceptualized, and what are the institutional, political, economic, cultural, ecological, and social contexts that have driven generic change in the American novel in the last fifteen to twenty years? What authors - established and new - have shaped the course of the novel in the 21st century? What are the most influential novels of the new millennium thus far, and how have they responded to, altered, and complicated our very notion of 'the American novel'? The chapters in this handbook aim to address these questions in a manner that is at once systematic, clearly structured, and deliberately pluralistic and open, particularly with regard to the theoretical and methodological frameworks applied.mehr

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KlappentextFocusing on the ways in which contemporary fiction and new genres of the novel are entangled with a variety of societal challenges and concerns, the aim of this volume is to provide students, university teachers, and literary scholars with a compact overview of the US-American novel in the first two decades of the new millennium. What are the dominant themes and recurring topics of recent American novels? How can the cultural dynamics of literary change in contemporary fiction be conceptualized, and what are the institutional, political, economic, cultural, ecological, and social contexts that have driven generic change in the American novel in the last fifteen to twenty years? What authors - established and new - have shaped the course of the novel in the 21st century? What are the most influential novels of the new millennium thus far, and how have they responded to, altered, and complicated our very notion of 'the American novel'? The chapters in this handbook aim to address these questions in a manner that is at once systematic, clearly structured, and deliberately pluralistic and open, particularly with regard to the theoretical and methodological frameworks applied.

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
TABLE OF CONTENTS


I. INTRODUCTION/SURVEY

1. MICHAEL BASSELER & ANSGAR NÜNNING
The American Novel in the 21st Century:
Changing Contexts, Literary Developments, New Modes of Reading ......................... 1

2. PHILIPP LÖFFLER
The Sociology and Institutions of Contemporary American Literature ...................... 37


II. LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF CRISES, POLITICS, AND THE WAR ON TERROR

3. BIRGIT DÄWES
Ground Zero Fiction: Jonathan Safran Foer s EXTREMELY LOUD &
INCREDIBLY CLOSE (2005), Don DeLillo s FALLING MAN (2007), and
Wendy Mills s ALL WE HAVE LEFT (2016) ..................................................................... 59

4. ELIZABETH KOVACH
Novel Ontologies after 9/11: Narrating the Politics of Being and Existence
in Paul Auster s MAN IN THE DARK (2008) and Jonathan Franzen s FREEDOM (2010) .. 73

5. FELIX HAASE & STEFANIE SCHÄFER
Revisioning and Rewriting American History in
Geraldine Brooks MARCH (2005), James McBride s
THE GOOD LORD BIRD (2013), and E.L. Doctorow s THE MARCH: A NOVEL (2005) ........ 87

6. MICHAEL BASSELER & ISABEL KALOUS
The Post-Civil Rights Novel: Re-negotiating African American Identities, Racism,
and Cultural Memory in Colson Whitehead s THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (2016)
and Paul Beatty s THE SELLOUT (2015) ....................................................................... 101

7. RÜDIGER HEINZE
Fictions of Immigration: Becoming American in Jhumpa Lahiri s
THE NAMESAKE (2004), Anne Tyler s DIGGING TO AMERICA (2006),
and Junot Díaz s THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO (2007) ............................ 117

8. TIM LANZENDÖRFER
Toward the American World-Novel:
The Aesthetics and Politics of Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism in
Aleksandar Hemon s NOWHERE MAN (2002), Teju Cole s OPEN CITY (2011),
and Peter Mountford s A YOUNG MAN S GUIDE TO LATE CAPITALISM (2011) ................ 135

9. CHRISTIAN KLOECKNER
Deconstructing the Fictions of Finance Capitalism: Don DeLillo s
COSMOPOLIS (2003) and Nathaniel Rich s ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (2013) ............. 153

10. MICHAEL BASSELER
Fictions of Resilience: Narrating (Environmental) Catastrophe
and Crisis in Cormac McCarthy s THE ROAD (2006) and
Jesmyn Ward s SALVAGE THE BONES (2011) ................................................................ 169


III. NEW FORMS OF LIFE IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN NOVELS

11. JOHANNA HARTMANN
The Precariousness of Being in the Art Novel of the 21st Century:
Siri Hustvedt s WHAT I LOVED (2003) and
Michael Cunningham s BY NIGHTFALL (2010) ............................................................. 187

12. SONJA SCHILLINGS
Erotic Fantasies in the Popular Thriller: Lee Child s JACK REACHER
Series (1997-) and Karin Slaughter s GRANT COUNTY Series (2001-2007) ................. 201

13. EVA-SABINE ZEHELEIN
Love, Money, and (New Types of) Family in the 21st Century:
Annie Weatherwax s ALL WE HAD (2014) and
Cynthia D Aprix Sweeney s THE NEST (2016) .......................................................... 215

14. NICO VÖLKER
Narrating the Changing City: Jonathan Lethem s THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE (2003)
and Jacqueline Woodson s ANOTHER BROOKLYN (2016)
as Contemporary Urban Novels ................................................................................ 231

15. CLEMENS SPAHR
The Consumption of Life: Consumerist Capitalism and the Commodification
of the Self in Colson Whitehead s APEX HIDES THE HURT (2006) and
Gary Shteyngart s SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY (2010) .............................................. 247

16. WIBKE SCHNIEDERMANN
The Fictions of the American Dream Reconsidered: George Packer s
THE UNWINDING (2013) and J.D. Vance s THE HILLBILLY ELEGY (2016) ....................... 263

17. ALEXANDER SCHERR
The Contemporary North American Science Novel: Richard Powers s
THE ECHO MAKER (2006) and GENEROSITY: AN ENHANCEMENT (2009) .......................... 279

18. SUSANNE KATHARINA CHRIST
Fictions of Dementia: Exploring Alzheimer s Disease in Lisa Genova s
STILL ALICE (2007) and Stefan Merrill Block s THE STORY OF FORGETTING (2008) .......... 297

19. INA BERGMANN
Historical Biofiction: Writing Lives in Diane Glancy s Stone Heart (2003)
and John May s POE & FANNY (2004) ....................................................................... 309

20. JOHANNES VOELZ
The American Novel and the Transformation of Privacy:
Ben Lerner s 10:04 (2014) and Miranda July s THE FIRST BAD MAN (2015) ............. 323


IV. BEYOND POSTMODERNISM: NEW FORMS OF
STORYTELLING IN CONTEMPORARY NOVELS

21. ALEXANDER SCHERR & ANSGAR NÜNNING
The Fragmented U.S.-American Novel in the 21st Century: Broken Narratives
and Disrupted Lives in Jennifer Egan s A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD (2010) and
Joshua Ferris THEN WE CAME TO THE END (2007) ...................................................... 341

22. SASCHA PÖHLMANN
Fictions of the Internet and Transmedial Storytelling in the Digital Age:
Thomas Pynchon s BLEEDING EDGE (2013) and Mark Z. Danielewski s
THE FAMILIAR (2015-) ................................................................................................ 359

23. JAN BAETENS
Visual Culture and the Rise of Graphic Novels:
Art Spiegelman s IN THE SHADOW OF NO TOWERS (2004) and Gene Luen Yang s
AMERICAN BORN CHINESE (2006) ................................................................................ 371

Authors ..................................................................................................................... 383mehr

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