EAN: 9783030738570

AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE ERA OF TRUMPISM GEBU...

This edited collection offers an exploration of American literature in the age of
Trumpism-understood as an ongoing sociopolitical and affective reality-by bringing together
analyses of some of the ways in which American writers have responded to the derealization of
political culture in the United States and the experience of a 'new' American reality after
2016. The volume's premise is that the disruptions and dislocations that were so exacerbated by
the political ascendancy of Trump and his spectacle-laden presidency have unsettled core
assumptions about American reality and the possibilities of representation. The blurring of the
relationship between fact and fiction  bolstered by the discourses of 'fake news' and
'alternative facts ' has not only drawn attention to the shattering of any notion of 'shared'
reality  but has also forced a reexamination of the purpose and value of literature  especially
when considering its troubled relation to the representation of 'America.' The authors in this
collection respond to the invitation to reassess the workings of fiction and critique in an age
of Trumpism by considering some of the most recent literary responses to the (new) American
realit(ies)-including works by Colson Whitehead  Ben Winters  Claudia Rankine  Gary Shteyngart
Jennifer Egan  and Steve Erickson  to name but a few-  some of which were composed in the
run-up to the 2016 election but were able to accurately and incisively imagine the world to
come.

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