Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era

Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era

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Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the 1990s as a group of American writers – including Mary Gaitskill, George Saunders, Richard Powers, Karen Tei Yamashita, and others – grapples with the political triumph of free-market ideology. The book shows how these writers resist the anti-social qualities of this frantic right-wing shift while still performing its essential gesture, the personalization of otherwise irreducible social antagonisms. Thus, we see these writers reinvent political struggles as differences in values and emotions, in fictions that explore non-antagonistic social forms like families, communities and networks. Situating these formally innovative fictions in the context of the controversies that have defined this rightward shift – including debates over free trade, welfare reform, and family values – Brooks details how American writers and politicians have reinvented liberalism for the age of pro-capitalist consensus.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2022
June 30
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
461
Pages
PUBLISHER
Cambridge University Press
SELLER
Cambridge University Press
SIZE
5.9
MB

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