Within the past ten years, the field of contemporary American literary studies has changed significantly. Following the turn of the twenty-first century and mounting doubts about the continued explanatory power of the category of postmodernism, new organizations have emerged, book series have been launched, journals have been created, and new methodologies, periodizations, and thematics have redefined the field. "Postmodern/Postwar and After "aims to be a field-defining book a sourcebook for the new and emerging critical terrain that explores the postmodern/postwar period and what comes...