American Literature in the Era of Trumpism: Alternative Realities

ISBN-13: 9783030738570 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 285 str.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: On the Meanings of ‘American Reality’

Part 1 Getting across in a Trumpian World

2. “The office could be any office” - Towards a New Sincerity in the Age of Trumpism

3. “I’d get so constipated if I were you”: Ottessa Moshfegh’s Intimate Disgust

4. Writing the Resistance: Claudia Rankine’s Exploration of Whiteness in The White Card

Part II Alternative Histories of ‘America’

5. Alternative Facts, Alternative Genres: Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach

6. The Day the Music Died: The Invisible Republic in Steve Erickson’s Shadowbahn

7. “The direction of the bizarre”: Reimagining History in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

8. Underground Airlines, Chaos, and Dehumanization

Part III Humor as Contestation

9. How Do We Laugh about This? Literary Satire in Trump Times

10. American Dirt’s Trumpian Discourse and the Latinx Parodic Response

11. Writing as Antidote: Muslim Writers Resist in Don’t Panic, I’m Islamic and Banthology

12. Coda: Empathy in the Age of Trump. Or, Using Our Weird Cultural Moment to Reassess How Fiction Works

O autorze

Dolores Resano is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin and Visiting Scholar in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. Her current research project, funded by the European Commission, is focused on contemporary American and European literary fiction from a transatlantic perspective, with a special interest in the intersections of literature, politics, and theories of negative affect. Dr. Resano holds a PhD in Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities from the Universitat de Barcelona, with a dissertation on post-9/11 fiction, satire, and public discourse.