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Beskrivning
This book explores a series of watershed moments in American politics through the lens of twenty-first-century fiction. Its contexts range from the Watergate scandal to the January 6 storming of the Capitol, from John F. Kennedy to Donald Trump. It considers authors such as Colson Whitehead, Ben Lerner, A. M. Homes, Dana Spiotta, Jack Livings, and Nathan Hill, with each chapter providing detailed close readings of new novels interwoven with the political contexts they evoke.
Alexandra Lawrie is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.
Innehållsförteckning
AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Political Fiction from Beyond the Beltway1. ‘We are the Legacy Generation’: A. M. Homes’s The Unfolding and 1950s Nostalgia in the Age of Obama2. ‘The White House, They Got That Integrated’: The Kennedys and Civil Rights in Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys and Harlem Shuffle3. The ‘Haunted’ President: Conformity and Surveillance in Nathan Hill’s The Nix4. ‘Paralysis and Stagnation and Drift’: Late-1970s Malaise in Tom Barbash and Jack Livings5. ‘The Lost Boys of Privilege’: Clintonian Triangulation and the End of History in Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School6. The ‘New, Weird Shape’ of the World: Populist Aesthetics Post-2016 election in Dana Spiotta’s WaywardConclusion: Trump and the NovelWorks Cited
