Postmodeism, Twenty-First Century Culture, and American Fiction (Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture)

by:Matt Graham (Author)

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Edition:1st

Publication Date:2024/7/19

Language:English

Print Length:236 pages

ISBN-10:1032556005

ISBN-13:9781032556000

Book Description

Postmodeism’s ‘end’ is a complex and contentious topic. Yet, one overarching consensus emerges:the postmode has been surpassed. This book poses a thought experiment challenging this position – what if postmodeism persists within the twenty-first century?Rather than designate a new epoch or coherent movement, this book interrogates the fragmented, contradictory, and counterintuitive endurance of postmode aesthetics within post-Cold War America. An alteative use of postmode aesthetics becomes possible when they are decoupled from their twentieth-century historical location. Collectively, these repetitions posit a postmode continuum, contrasting the widely called-for succession of postmodeism via this decoupling. When postmode aesthetics are no longer unconsciously repeated within their cultural moment, this emergent shift within a period ‘after’ postmodeism presents an alteative historical positioning and use. After their cultural vanguard, postmode aesthetics become a confrontation of the chaotic realism of an inescapable post-Cold War capitalism, tapping into this cultural zeitgeist through literature.

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Postmodeism’s ‘end’ is a complex and contentious topic. Yet, one overarching consensus emerges:the postmode has been surpassed. This book poses a thought experiment challenging this position – what if postmodeism persists within the twenty-first century?Rather than designate a new epoch or coherent movement, this book interrogates the fragmented, contradictory, and counterintuitive endurance of postmode aesthetics within post-Cold War America. An alteative use of postmode aesthetics becomes possible when they are decoupled from their twentieth-century historical location. Collectively, these repetitions posit a postmode continuum, contrasting the widely called-for succession of postmodeism via this decoupling. When postmode aesthetics are no longer unconsciously repeated within their cultural moment, this emergent shift within a period ‘after’ postmodeism presents an alteative historical positioning and use. After their cultural vanguard, postmode aesthetics become a confrontation of the chaotic realism of an inescapable post-Cold War capitalism, tapping into this cultural zeitgeist through literature.

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