After critique [electronic resource] : twenty-first-century fiction in a neoliberal age / Mitchum Huehls.
2016
PS374.P62 H84 2016eb
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After critique [electronic resource] : twenty-first-century fiction in a neoliberal age / Mitchum Huehls.
ISBN
9780190456245 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 214 pages).
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190456221 doi
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PS374.P62 H84 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
813.609355
Summary
'After Critique' identifies an ontological turn in contemporary US fiction that distinguishes our current literary moment from both postmodernism and so-called post-postmodernism. This turn to ontology takes many forms, but in general this book highlights a body of literature - work from Colson Whitehead, Uzodinma Iweala, Karen Yamashita, Helena Viramontes, Percival Everett, Mat Johnson, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Tom McCarthy - that favours presence over absence, being over meaning, and connection over reference.
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'After Critique' identifies an ontological turn in contemporary US fiction that distinguishes our current literary moment from both postmodernism and so-called post-postmodernism. This turn to ontology takes many forms, but in general this book highlights a body of literature - work from Colson Whitehead, Uzodinma Iweala, Karen Yamashita, Helena Viramontes, Percival Everett, Mat Johnson, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Tom McCarthy - that favours presence over absence, being over meaning, and connection over reference.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Oxford studies in American literary history.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: we have never been neoliberal: critique's complicity, capitulation's promise
Turning to presence: the contingent persons of human rights literature
Embracing objects: public and private space in literary Los Angeles
Objectifying race: or, what African American literature is
Welcoming the world: post-ecological fiction
Coda: accounting 101: reading the exomodern.
Turning to presence: the contingent persons of human rights literature
Embracing objects: public and private space in literary Los Angeles
Objectifying race: or, what African American literature is
Welcoming the world: post-ecological fiction
Coda: accounting 101: reading the exomodern.