The American Presidency in Twenty-First-Century Fiction (New Perspectives on the American Presidency)

Lawrie, Alexandra

Edinburgh University Press（2025/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 232 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399538923
• DDC分類 813.6093581

Full Description

This book explores a series of watershed moments in American politics through the lens of twenty-first-century fiction. Its contexts range from the Watergate scandal to the January 6 storming of the Capitol, from John F. Kennedy to Donald Trump. It considers authors such as Colson Whitehead, Ben Lerner, A. M. Homes, Dana Spiotta, Jack Livings, and Nathan Hill, with each chapter providing detailed close readings of new novels interwoven with the political contexts they evoke.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Political Fiction from Beyond the Beltway

1. 'We are the Legacy Generation': A. M. Homes's The Unfolding and 1950s Nostalgia in the Age of Obama

2. 'The White House, They Got That Integrated': The Kennedys and Civil Rights in Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys and Harlem Shuffle

3. The 'Haunted' President: Conformity and Surveillance in Nathan Hill's The Nix

4. 'Paralysis and Stagnation and Drift': Late-1970s Malaise in Tom Barbash and Jack Livings

5. 'The Lost Boys of Privilege': Clintonian Triangulation and the End of History in Ben Lerner's The Topeka School

6. The 'New, Weird Shape' of the World: Populist Aesthetics Post-2016 election in Dana Spiotta's Wayward

Conclusion: Trump and the Novel

Works Cited