The Cambridge companion to twenty-first century American fiction / edited by Joshua L. Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Joshua L., 1971- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 319 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Short fiction, flash fiction, microfiction / Angela Naimou

Experimental fiction / David James

Speculative fiction / Mark Bould

Graphic fiction / Katalin Orbán

Digital fiction / Scott Rettberg

Afro-futurism/Afro-pessimism / Candice M. Jenkins

Transpacific diasporas / Julia H. Lee

Hemispheric routes / Mary Pat Brady

Transgender and transgenre writing / Trish Salah

Climate fiction / Heather Houser

Convergence / Mark Goble

Dissolution / Crystal Parikh

Immobility / Dennis Childs

Insecurity / Hamilton Carroll.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 Sep 2021).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781108974288 (ebook)

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