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Hybrid Novels Post-postmodernism, Sincerity, and Race at the Turn of the 21st Century
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Post-postmodernism and the Year 2000
1. Erasure’s Paradoxes: The Post-postmodern and the Postracial
2. The Corrections and the Market Logics of Post-postmodernism
3. Association and Organisation in White Teeth
4. Infinite Jest’s Endnotes
Coda: Autofiction in the 2010s
Works Cited
Index
Biography
George Kowalik is a writer and researcher based in London, UK. He has a PhD in contemporary transatlantic literature from King’s College London and currently teaches at Glasgow Caledonian University. His research has appeared widely, with work published or forthcoming in academic journals including ASAP, Humanities, Journal of American Studies, The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies, and Orbit: A Journal of American Literature. George’s interviews with prize-winning authors, including Percival Everett and Brandon Taylor, have also been published. His short stories and writing on contemporary cinema, literature, music, and television have appeared in various outlets in print and online.
The literary moment known as post-postmodernism seemed to disappear as quickly as it arrived, and in its wake we need a substantial account of what it was, and how it worked. Kowalik’s book is precisely that account, taking a longer view on the strange history of the term and arguing for the importance of reading the post-postmodern novel as a hybrid form. Hybrid Novels: Post-postmodernism, Sincerity, and Race at the Turn of the 21st Century delivers an illuminating history of this relatively fleeting, but nevertheless crucial, literary movement.
David Hering, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Liverpool, UK
George Kowalik’s Hybrid Novels: Post-Postmodernism, Sincerity, and Race at the Turn of the 21st Century is rigorously researched, innovative, and beautifully written. This book will become the standard for thinking and theorizing American and British literature in the twenty-first century.
Keith Mitchell, Associate Professor of English, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
Postmodernism was never exactly one thing, but it has often occupied a position of totality as a clear moment, but what came after it? Hybrid Novels: Post-postmodernism, Sincerity, and Race at the Turn of the 21st Century, structured through insightful and informed close readings, is a hugely significant contribution to the study of the arts of the present by an important new voice in contemporary literary studies. It comes highly recommended to all who want to better understand where we are right now and where we may be going.
Michael J. Collins, Reader in American Studies, King’s College London, UK
