TY  - BOOK
AU  - Graham,Matt
TI  - Postmodernism, twenty-first century culture, and American fiction: establishing the continuum 
T2  - Routledge research in American literature and culture
SN  - 9781003431381
AV  - PS374.P64 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 21st century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Post-postmodernism (Literature)
KW  - Literature
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics
N2  - "Postmodernism's 'end' is a complex and contentious topic. Yet, one overarching consensus emerges: the postmodern has been surpassed. This book poses a thought experiment challenging this position - what if postmodernism 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 postmodern aesthetics within post-Cold War America. By decoupling postmodern aesthetics from their twentieth century historical location, an alternative use of postmodern aesthetics becomes possible. Collectively, these repetitions posit a postmodern continuum, contrasting the widely called for succession of postmodernism via this decoupling. When postmodern aesthetics are no longer unconsciously repeated within their cultural moment, this emergent shift within a period 'after' postmodernism presents an alternative historical positioning and use. After their cultural vanguard, postmodern aesthetics become a confrontation of the chaotic realism of an inescapable post-Cold War capitalism, tapping into this cultural zeitgeist through literature"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003431381
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -