Titlebook: American Literature in the Era of Trumpism; Alternative Realitie Dolores Resano Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s),

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Book 2022ature, especially when considering its troubled relation to the representation of ‘America.’ The authors in this collection respond to the invitation to reassess the workings of fiction and critique in an age of Trumpism by considering some of the most recent literary responses to the (new) American

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Coda: Empathy in the Age of Trump: Or, Using Our Weird Cultural Moment to Reassess How Fiction Workole of literature, as well as the artistic risks of political art, from Kant to Rousseau to Adam Smith and George Eliot, but with a twist: recent scientific evidence that points to limitations on empathy’s ability to generate prosocial behavior. Recent work by Ben Lerner and current thinkers like Na

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“The office could be any office”: Toward a New Sincerity in the Age of TrumpismThis chapter looks back to American literature of the New Sincerity, in particular David Foster Wallace’s ., and the possibility of a return to moral responsibility. Breaking with the poststructuralist ‘Death of the Author,’ . reestablishes an author-reader-text relationship by viewing (literary) co

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“I’d get so constipated if I were you”: Ottessa Moshfegh’s Intimate Disgustect, this essay suggests that Moshfegh’s fiction might be particularly suited to the affective environment of a presidency arguably defined by its recourse to a politics of disgust. Focusing on the varied forms of repulsion dramatized in 2018’s ., I argue that the novel demonstrates a newfound refle

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“The direction of the bizarre”: Reimagining History in Colson Whitehead’s ch have become pertinent in Trump’s post-truth America. Using the example of Whitehead’s ‘Museum of Natural Wonders,’ this chapter examines Whitehead’s dialogue with P.T. Barnum, Joice Heth and the disconcerting overlap between science and popular culture, to suggest that integrity is located not in

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Chaos, and Dehumanization where the last vestige of humanity is stripped from the Black body. The chaotic nature of the abject protagonist and his world are central to the novel’s message: slavery is still with us, and the abject, dehumanized other is required for the smooth running of the nation-state even as the nature of