Table of Contents

Introduction: Try for a moment to feel this; 1. The varieties of American neoliberalism; 2. 'The Family Gone Wrong': experimental literature and conservative politics; 3. Post-political form; 4. 'SUPERNAFTA' vs. 'El Gran Mojado': alternative fictional realities and the fight for free trade; Afterword: Then we came to the end.

Promotional Information

Argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the 1990s as American writers grapple with the triumph of free-market politics.

About the Author

Ryan M. Brooks is an Assistant Professor of English at West Texas A&M University. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His work has been published in Twentieth-Century Literature, 49th Parallel, Mediations, The Account, and the critical anthology The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television.