Description
Postmodernism’s ‘end’ is a complex and contentious topic. Yet, one overarching consensus emerges: the postmodern has been surpassed. This book poses a thought experiment challenging this position – what if postmodernism persists within the twenty-first century?
Rather than designate a new epoch or coherent movement, this book interrogates the fragmented, contradictory, and counterintuitive endurance of postmodern aesthetics within post-Cold War America. An alternative use of postmodern aesthetics becomes possible when they are decoupled from their twentieth-century historical location. Collectively, these repetitions posit a postmodern continuum, contrasting the widely called-for succession of postmodernism via this decoupling. When postmodern aesthetics are no longer unconsciously repeated within their cultural moment, this emergent shift within a period ‘after’ postmodernism presents an alternative historical positioning and use. After their cultural vanguard, postmodern aesthetics become a confrontation of the chaotic realism of an inescapable post-Cold War capitalism, tapping into this cultural zeitgeist through literature.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Hallucinatory Reality, Unreliable Narration: From American Psycho to Post-Truth America
2. Terroristic Nihilism in Empire of the Senseless and Fight Club: The Constructive Limits of Violence After the End of History
3. Revitalizing Transgressive Excess: Limitation, Waste & Reuse in Love Creeps and Sadie: The Sadist
4. Digital Regression: Mourning, Reuse & ‘Bad’ Reading in God Jr. and Zac’s Control Panel
5. Contesting Categorization: Subjectivity, Race & Metafiction in Percival Everett by Virgil Russell and The Sympathizer
6. The Politics of Repetition: Nostalgia, Appropriation & Postmodern Aesthetics in Taipei and You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
Conclusion
Index
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