Beschreibung:
Christopher K. Coffman is Senior Lecturer in Humanities at Boston University, MA, USA. He is the author of Rewriting Early America: The Prenational Past in Postmodern Literature (2019) and co-editor of William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion (2015).
This volume identifies four prominent trends of the contemporaryAmerican literature's scene: the recovery of the real, a rethinking of historical engagement, a preoccupation with materiality, and a turn to the planetary.
Introduction: American fiction after postmodernism