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Flat Aesthetics - Twenty-First-Century American Fiction and the Making of the Contemporary (Hardcover)
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Flat Aesthetics - Twenty-First-Century American Fiction and the Making of the Contemporary (Hardcover)
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Flat Aesthetics seeks to secure a more granular and ontologically
demotic handle on the contemporary in American literature. While
contemporaneity can be viewed as "our" period, Christian Moraru
approaches the contemporary as some-thing made by things
themselves. The making of the contemporary is variously restaged by
the body of fictional prose under scrutiny here. Thus, this corpus
itself participates in the making of contemporaneity. In dialogue
with object-oriented ontology and various new materialisms, Moraru
contends that the contemporary does not preexist objects or the
novels featuring them; it is not their background but an outcome of
things' self-presentation. As objects, beings, or existents present
themselves in the present, in our "now," they foster
thing-configurations that together compose the form of, and
essentially make, the contemporary - the present's
cultural-material signature, as Moraru calls it. To decipher this
signature, Flat Aesthetics provides a cross-sectional reading of
postmillennial American fiction. Discussed are solely post-2000
works by writers who have also established themselves over the past
two decades or so, from Nicole Krauss, Michael Chabon, and Ben
Lerner to Colson Whitehead and Emily St. John Mandel. Their output,
Moraru claims, bears witness to the onset of a "flat" aesthetics in
American letters after September 11, 2001. Organized into five
parts, the books canvases objectual constellations of
contemporaneity shaped by material dynamics of language, museality
and display, spatiality, zombification and thing-rhetoric, and
post-anthropocentric kinship.
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