The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Fiction
Part of Cambridge Companions to Literature
- Editor: Joshua Miller, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Date Published: September 2021
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108978705
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Reading lists, course syllabi, and prizes include the phrase '21st-century American literature,' but no critical consensus exists regarding when the period began, which works typify it, how to conceptualize its aesthetic priorities, and where its geographical boundaries lie. Considerable criticism has been published on this extraordinary era, but little programmatic analysis has assessed comprehensively the literary and critical/theoretical output to help readers navigate the labyrinth of critical pathways. In addition to ensuring broad coverage of many essential texts, The Cambridge Companion to 21st Century American Fiction offers state-of-the field analyses of contemporary narrative studies that set the terms of current and future research and teaching. Individual chapters illuminate critical engagements with emergent genres and concepts, including flash fiction, speculative fiction, digital fiction, alternative temporalities, Afro-futurism, ecocriticism, transgender/queer studies, anti-carceral fiction, precarity, and post-9/11 fiction.
Read more- One of the first volumes dedicated to the study of 21st-century US fiction
- Includes 14 chapters by leading scholars in contemporary literary studies, representing a wide range of topics, concepts, and literary genres
- Illuminates critical engagements with new and emergent genres and concepts, including flash fiction, digital fiction, Afro-futurism, ecocriticism, trans fiction, anti-carceral fiction, and post-9/11 fiction.
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- Date Published: September 2021
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108978705
- length: 342 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.52kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction Joshua L. Miller
Part I. Forms:
1. Short Fiction, Flash Fiction, Microfiction Angela Naimou
2. Experimental Fiction David James
3. Speculative Fiction Mark Bould
4. Graphic Fiction Katalin Orbán
5. Digital Fiction Scott Rettberg
Part II. Approaches:
6. Afro-Futurism/Afro-Pessimism Candice M. Jenkins
7. Transpacific Diasporas Julia H. Lee
8. Hemispheric Routes Mary Pat Brady
9. Transgender and Transgenre Writing Trish Salah
10. Climate Fiction Heather Houser
Part III. Themes:
11. Convergence Mark Goble
12. Dissolution Crystal Parikh
13. Immobilit Dennis Childs
14. Insecurity Hamilton Carroll
Further Reading
Index.
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