Introduction: The Time Is Now -- The Novel after Tomorrow's Crash -- How to Read the Present -- The Tenses of Race: The Privilege of Contemporaneity and the Unequal Distribution of Presence -- Periodizing the Contemporary: Literary History after Postmodernism. "This book examin…
"This book examines works by authors like Don DeLillo, Jennifer Egan, Charles Yu, and Colson Whitehead to show that the contemporary American novel offers new ways to make sense of the temporality that governs our contemporary world"--
"This book examines works by authors like Don DeLillo, Jennifer Egan, Charles Yu, and Colson Whitehead to show that the contemporary American novel offers new ways to make sense of the temporality that governs our contemporary world"--
Commentators across the political spectrum have argued that the future has been absorbed by an ever-expanding present to which we cannot imagine alternatives. The notion that we have lost the ability to imagine change-culturally, socially, and politically-has become one of the d…
Commentators across the political spectrum have argued that the future has been absorbed by an ever-expanding present to which we cannot imagine alternatives. The notion that we have lost the ability to imagine change -- culturally, socially, and politically -- has become one of…
"Commentators across the political spectrum have argued that the future has been absorbed by an ever-expanding present to which we cannot imagine alternatives. The notion that we have lost the ability to imagine change -- culturally, socially, and politically -- has become one o…