American Studies after Postmodernism

In: Renewing the American Narrative

Abstract

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. .