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Contemporary Drift - Genre, Historicism, and the Problem of the Present (Hardcover)
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Contemporary Drift - Genre, Historicism, and the Problem of the Present (Hardcover)
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What does it mean to call something "contemporary"? More than
simply denoting what's new, it speaks to how we come to know the
present we're living in and how we develop a shared story about it.
The story of trying to understand the present is an integral, yet
often unnoticed, part of the literature and film of our moment. In
Contemporary Drift, Theodore Martin argues that the contemporary is
not just a historical period but also a conceptual problem, and he
claims that contemporary genre fiction offers a much-needed
resource for resolving that problem. Contemporary Drift combines a
theoretical focus on the challenge of conceptualizing the present
with a historical account of contemporary literature and film.
Emphasizing both the difficulty and the necessity of historicizing
the contemporary, the book explores how recent works of fiction
depict life in an age of global capitalism, postindustrialism, and
climate change. Through new histories of the novel of manners, film
noir, the Western, detective fiction, and the postapocalyptic
novel, Martin shows how the problem of the contemporary preoccupies
a wide range of novelists and filmmakers, including Zadie Smith,
Colson Whitehead, Vikram Chandra, China Mieville, Kelly Reichardt,
and the Coen brothers. Martin argues that genre provides these
artists with a formal strategy for understanding both the content
and the concept of the contemporary. Genre writing, with its mix of
old and new, brings to light the complicated process by which we
make sense of our present and determine what belongs to our time.
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