Wednesday, February 12, 2020

"American Literature and the Long Downturn" - a new academic book by Dan Sinykin

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American Literature and the Long Downturn

Neoliberal Apocalypse

Dan Sinykin

  • Offers a theory to account for ubiquitous apocalypticism in contemporary American literature
  • Provides a coherent periodization of contemporary American literature
  • Includes archival research that has never been published before including new interpretations of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead, and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.
Dan Sinykin @dan_sinykin Feb 11
''I wrote a book. Out very soon! It is horribly timely. It tells how we came to our apocalyptic moment—and what it's meant for literature. Baldwin, Silko, Wallace. White nationalism, dispensationalism. Cli-fi. Trump. Pre-order for your local library, pleeze!

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