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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION/SURVEY
MICHAEL BASSELER & ANSGAR NÜNNING
The American Novel in the 21st Century:
Changing Contexts, Literary Developments, New Modes of Reading ......................... 1
PHILIPP LÖFFLER
The Sociology and Institutions of Contemporary American Literature ...................... 37
II. LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF CRISES, POLITICS, AND THE 'WAR ON TERROR'
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
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
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
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
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
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
CHRISTIAN KLOECKNER
Deconstructing the Fictions of Finance Capitalism: Don DeLillo's
COSMOPOLIS (2003) and Nathaniel Rich's ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (2013) ............. 153
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
ALEXANDER SCHERR
The Contemporary North American Science Novel: Richard Powers's
THE ECHO MAKER (2006) and GENEROSITY: AN ENHANCEMENT (2009) .......................... 279
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
INA BERGMANN
Historical Biofiction: Writing Lives in Diane Glancy's Stone Heart (2003)
and John May's POE & FANNY (2004) ....................................................................... 309
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
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
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
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
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