Description
American Literature in Transition, 2000–2010 illuminates the dynamic transformations that occurred in American literary culture during the first decade of the twenty-first century. The volume is the first major critical collection to address the literature of the 2000s, a decade that saw dramatic changes in digital technology, economics, world affairs, and environmental awareness. Beginning with an introduction that takes stock of the period's major historical, cultural, and literary movements, the volume features accessible essays on a wide range of topics, including genre fiction, the treatment of social networking in literature, climate change fiction, the ascendency of Amazon and online booksellers, 9/11 literature, finance and literature, and the rise of prestige television. Mapping the literary culture of a decade of promise and threat, American Literature in Transition, 2000–2010 provides an invaluable resource on twenty-first century American literature for general readers, students, and scholars alike.
Table of Contents
Introduction Rachel Greenwald Smith; Part I. Formal Transitions: 1. 'Post'-ethnic form Elda María Román; 2. Gender, sexuality, and new queer forms T. Jackie Cuevas; 3. Formally conventional fiction Adam Kelly; 4. Literary genre fiction Andrew Hoberek; 5. New wave fabulism and hybrid science fictions Kate Marshall; 6. The televisual novel Phillip Maciak; Part II. The Return of Authenticity: 7. Neorealist fiction Lee Konstantinou; 8. Memoir Daniel Worden; 9. Historical fiction and the end of history Mitchum Huehls; 10. Literature after 9/11 Georgiana Banita; 11. The neuronovel Stephen J. Burn; Part III. Digital Revolutions: 12. Information Lindsay Thomas; 13. Electronic literature Brian Kim Stefans; 14. Social networks Scott Selisker; 15. Conceptual writing Jennifer Ashton; Part IV. Transnational Currents: 16. Financialization Annie McClanahan; 17. Borders and migrations Emilio Sauri; 18. War on terror Timothy Melley; Part V. The Ecological Turn: 19. New directions in ecocriticism Janet Fiskio and Sophia Bamert; 20. Climate change fiction Matthew Schneider-Mayerson; 21. Ecopoetics Jonathan Skinner; Part VI. Institutional Shifts: 22. Little magazines, blogs, and literary media Evan Kindley; 23. Publishing in the age of Amazon Loren Glass; 24. Creative writing, cultural studies, and the university Eric Bennett; Afterword: the 2000s after 2016 Rachel Greenwald Smith.
