Recent Experiments in American Fiction

Just when the political stakes of truth and falsity in the United States seem to be higher than ever, many American writers are exploring a conceptual space located “on the very edge of fiction,” as one author puts it. Are such strategies still readable in ideological terms, or are they better under...

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Published in:Novel : a forum on fiction 2017-11, Vol.50 (3), p.351-359
Main Author: Bewes, Timothy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
21st century
American literature
Critical Theory
Fiction
Ideology
Literary Criticism
Literary Theory
Literature and Literary Studies
Politics
Presidential elections
Theory and Philosophy
Trump, Donald J
Truth
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Summary:Just when the political stakes of truth and falsity in the United States seem to be higher than ever, many American writers are exploring a conceptual space located “on the very edge of fiction,” as one author puts it. Are such strategies still readable in ideological terms, or are they better understood as a loss of the critical standpoint from which ideological reading might take place? This article outlines the need for a critical practice capable of meeting the formal and ideological challenges of contemporary American fiction and takes the first steps toward imagining such a practice.
ISSN:0029-5132
1945-8509
DOI:10.1215/00295132-4194936