After critique : twenty-first-century fiction in a neoliberal age /
'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 C...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Oxford studies in American literary history.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 214 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190456245 0190456248 9780190456238 019045623X |