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I. INTRODUCTION/SURVEY

1. MICHAEL BASSELER & ANSGAR NÜNNING
   The American Novel in the 21st Century:
   Changing Contexts, Literary Developments, New Modes of Reading ......................... 1

2. PHILIPP LÖFFLER
   The Sociology and Institutions of Contemporary American Literature ...................... 37

   II. LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF CRISES, POLITICS, AND THE 'WAR ON TERROR'

3. BIRGIT DÄWES
   Ground Zero Fiction: Jonathan Safran Foer's EXTREMELY LOUD &
   INCREDIBLY CLOSE (2005), Don DeLillo's FALLING MAN (2007), and
   Wendy Mills's ALL WE HAVE LEFT (2016) ..................................................................... 59

4. ELIZABETH KOVACH
   Novel Ontologies after 9/11: Narrating the Politics of Being and Existence
   in Paul Auster's MAN IN THE DARK (2008) and Jonathan Franzen's FREEDOM (2010) .. 73

5. FELIX HAASE & STEFANIE SCHÄFER
   Revisioning and Rewriting American History in
   Geraldine Brooks' MARCH (2005), James McBride's
   THE GOOD LORD BIRD (2013), and E.L. Doctorow's THE MARCH: A NOVEL (2005) ........ 87

6. MICHAEL BASSELER & ISABEL KALOUS
   The Post-Civil Rights Novel: Re-negotiating African American Identities, Racism,
   and Cultural Memory in Colson Whitehead's THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (2016)
   and Paul Beatty's THE SELLOUT (2015) ....................................................................... 101

7. RÜDIGER HEINZE
   Fictions of Immigration: Becoming American in Jhumpa Lahiri's
   THE NAMESAKE (2004), Anne Tyler's DIGGING TO AMERICA (2006),
   and Junot Díaz's THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO (2007) ............................ 117

8. TIM LANZENDÖRFER
   Toward the American World-Novel:
   The Aesthetics and Politics of Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism in
   Aleksandar Hemon's NOWHERE MAN (2002), Teju Cole's OPEN CITY (2011),
   and Peter Mountford's A YOUNG MAN'S GUIDE TO LATE CAPITALISM (2011) ................ 135

9. CHRISTIAN KLOECKNER
   Deconstructing the Fictions of Finance Capitalism: Don DeLillo's
   COSMOPOLIS (2003) and Nathaniel Rich's ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (2013) ............. 153

10. MICHAEL BASSELER
    Fictions of Resilience: Narrating (Environmental) Catastrophe
    and Crisis in Cormac McCarthy's THE ROAD (2006) and
    Jesmyn Ward's SALVAGE THE BONES (2011) ................................................................ 169

    III. NEW FORMS OF LIFE IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN NOVELS

11. JOHANNA HARTMANN
    The 'Precariousness of Being' in the Art Novel of the 21st Century:
    Siri Hustvedt's WHAT I LOVED (2003) and
    Michael Cunningham's BY NIGHTFALL (2010) ............................................................. 187

12. SONJA SCHILLINGS
    Erotic Fantasies in the Popular Thriller: Lee Child's JACK REACHER
    Series (1997-) and Karin Slaughter's GRANT COUNTY Series (2001-2007) ................. 201

13. EVA-SABINE ZEHELEIN
    Love, Money, and (New Types of) Family in the 21st Century:
    Annie Weatherwax's ALL WE HAD (2014) and
    Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's THE NEST (2016) .......................................................... 215

14. NICO VÖLKER
    Narrating the Changing City: Jonathan Lethem's THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE (2003)
    and Jacqueline Woodson's ANOTHER BROOKLYN (2016)
    as Contemporary Urban Novels ................................................................................ 231

15. CLEMENS SPAHR
    The Consumption of Life: Consumerist Capitalism and the Commodification
    of the Self in Colson Whitehead's APEX HIDES THE HURT (2006) and
    Gary Shteyngart's SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY (2010) .............................................. 247

16. WIBKE SCHNIEDERMANN
    The Fictions of the American Dream Reconsidered: George Packer's
    THE UNWINDING (2013) and J.D. Vance's THE HILLBILLY ELEGY (2016) ....................... 263

17. ALEXANDER SCHERR
    The Contemporary North American Science Novel: Richard Powers's
    THE ECHO MAKER (2006) and GENEROSITY: AN ENHANCEMENT (2009) .......................... 279

18. SUSANNE KATHARINA CHRIST
    Fictions of Dementia: Exploring Alzheimer's Disease in Lisa Genova's
    STILL ALICE (2007) and Stefan Merrill Block's THE STORY OF FORGETTING (2008) .......... 297

19. INA BERGMANN
    Historical Biofiction: Writing Lives in Diane Glancy's Stone Heart (2003)
    and John May's POE & FANNY (2004) ....................................................................... 309

20. JOHANNES VOELZ
    The American Novel and the Transformation of Privacy:
    Ben Lerner's 10:04 (2014) and Miranda July's THE FIRST BAD MAN (2015) ............. 323

    IV. BEYOND POSTMODERNISM: NEW FORMS OF
    STORYTELLING IN CONTEMPORARY NOVELS

21. ALEXANDER SCHERR & ANSGAR NÜNNING
    The Fragmented U.S.-American Novel in the 21st Century: Broken Narratives
    and Disrupted Lives in Jennifer Egan's A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD (2010) and
    Joshua Ferris' THEN WE CAME TO THE END (2007) ...................................................... 341

22. SASCHA PÖHLMANN
    Fictions of the Internet and Transmedial Storytelling in the Digital Age:
    Thomas Pynchon's BLEEDING EDGE (2013) and Mark Z. Danielewski's
    THE FAMILIAR (2015-) ................................................................................................ 359

23. JAN BAETENS
    Visual Culture and the Rise of Graphic Novels:
    Art Spiegelman's IN THE SHADOW OF NO TOWERS (2004) and Gene Luen Yang's
    AMERICAN BORN CHINESE (2006) ................................................................................ 371

    Authors ..................................................................................................................... 383