American Literature in Transition, 2000–2010

This volume offers an overview of the major transitions that occurred in American literary culture between 2000 and 2010.

Rachel Greenwald Smith (Edited by)

9781107149298, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 December 2017

412 pages, 5 b/w illus.
23.6 x 15.8 x 2.6 cm, 0.81 kg

American Literature in Transition, 2000–2010 illuminates the dynamic transformations that occurred in American literary culture during the first decade of the twenty-first century. The volume is the first major critical collection to address the literature of the 2000s, a decade that saw dramatic changes in digital technology, economics, world affairs, and environmental awareness. Beginning with an introduction that takes stock of the period's major historical, cultural, and literary movements, the volume features accessible essays on a wide range of topics, including genre fiction, the treatment of social networking in literature, climate change fiction, the ascendency of Amazon and online booksellers, 9/11 literature, finance and literature, and the rise of prestige television. Mapping the literary culture of a decade of promise and threat, American Literature in Transition, 2000–2010 provides an invaluable resource on twenty-first century American literature for general readers, students, and scholars alike.

Introduction Rachel Greenwald Smith
Part I. Formal Transitions: 1. 'Post'-ethnic form Elda María Román
2. Gender, sexuality, and new queer forms T. Jackie Cuevas
3. Formally conventional fiction Adam Kelly
4. Literary genre fiction Andrew Hoberek
5. New wave fabulism and hybrid science fictions Kate Marshall
6. The televisual novel Phillip Maciak
Part II. The Return of Authenticity: 7. Neorealist fiction Lee Konstantinou
8. Memoir Daniel Worden
9. Historical fiction and the end of history Mitchum Huehls
10. Literature after 9/11 Georgiana Banita
11. The neuronovel Stephen J. Burn
Part III. Digital Revolutions: 12. Information Lindsay Thomas
13. Electronic literature Brian Kim Stefans
14. Social networks Scott Selisker
15. Conceptual writing Jennifer Ashton
Part IV. Transnational Currents: 16. Financialization Annie McClanahan
17. Borders and migrations Emilio Sauri
18. War on terror Timothy Melley
Part V. The Ecological Turn: 19. New directions in ecocriticism Janet Fiskio and Sophia Bamert
20. Climate change fiction Matthew Schneider-Mayerson
21. Ecopoetics Jonathan Skinner
Part VI. Institutional Shifts: 22. Little magazines, blogs, and literary media Evan Kindley
23. Publishing in the age of Amazon Loren Glass
24. Creative writing, cultural studies, and the university Eric Bennett
Afterword: the 2000s after 2016 Rachel Greenwald Smith.

Subject Areas: Literary reference works [DSR], Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH]