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After: U.S. literary culture, 1989--present

Posted on:2011-05-20Degree:Ph.DType:Dissertation
University:Washington University in St. LouisCandidate:Muth, Katie RuthFull Text:PDF
GTID:1465390011472748Subject:American Studies
Abstract/Summary:
"After" explores work from contemporary American novelists like Kathryn Davis, Don DeLillo, Lydia Millet, Toni Morrison, Richard Powers, Thomas Pynchon, and William T. Vollmann. Situated both after 1989 and after the expiration of a series of "posts"--after postmodernism, after poststructuralism, after posthistory--the authors in my archive self-consciously bind competing models of historical time in response to the ethical pressures of a newly configured global community.
Keywords/Search Tags:American
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