| Series |
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 189. ^A664069
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| Contents |
Introduction: Try for a moment to feel this -- The varieties of American neoliberalism -- "The family gone wrong": experimental literature and conservative politics -- Post-political form -- SUPERNAFTA" vs. "El Gran Mojado": alternative fictional realitites and the fight for free trade -- Afterword: then we came to the end. |
| Abstract |
"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, and grapples with the political triumph of free-market ideology. The book shows how these writers resist the anti-social qualities of this "frantic twist to the right" (as Gaitskill puts it) 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 "twist"-- 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Based on the author's dissertation, (doctoral)--University of Illinois, 2014. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Brooks, Ryan M., 1977- Liberalism and American literature in the Clinton era 1. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2022 9781009019040 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021048858 |
| ISBN | 9781316519813 |
| ISBN | 1316519813 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781009011198 paperback |
| ISBN | 1009011197 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| ISBN | electronic book |
