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Postmodern/Postwar-and After - Rethinking American Literature (Paperback)
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Postmodern/Postwar-and After - Rethinking American Literature (Paperback)
Series: The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture
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Within the past ten years, the field of contemporary American
literary studies has changed significantly. Following the turn of
the twenty-first century and mounting doubts about the continued
explanatory power of the category of "postmodernism," new
organizations have emerged, book series have been launched,
journals have been created, and new methodologies, periodizations,
and thematics have redefined the field. Postmodern/Postwar-and
After aims to be a field-defining book-a sourcebook for the new and
emerging critical terrain-that explores the postmodern/postwar
period and what comes after. The first section of essays returns to
the category of the "postmodern" and argues for the usefulness of
key concepts and themes from postmodernism to the study of
contemporary literature, or reevaluates postmodernism in light of
recent developments in the field and historical and economic
changes in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
These essays take the contemporary abandonments of postmodernism as
an occasion to assess the current states of postmodernity. After
that, the essays move to address the critical shift away from
postmodernism as a description of the present, and toward a new
sense of postmodernism as just one category among many that
scholars can use to describe the recentpast. The final section
looks forward and explores the question of what comes after the
postwar/postmodern. Taken together, these essays from leading and
emerging scholars on the state of twenty-first-century literary
studies provide a number of frameworks for approaching contemporary
literature as influenced by, yet distinct from, postmodernism. The
result is an indispensable guide that seeks to represent and
understand the major overhauling of postwar American literary
studies that is currently underway.
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