American Literature in the Era of Trumpism

Chapter 1 Introduction: On the Meanings of ‘American Reality’

Chapter 2 “The office could be any office”: Toward a New Sincerity in the Age of Trumpism

Chapter 3 “I’d get so constipated if I were you”: Ottessa Moshfegh’s Intimate Disgust

Chapter 4 Writing the Resistance: Claudia Rankine’s Exploration of Whiteness in The White Card

Chapter 5 Alternative Facts, Alternative Genres: Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach

Chapter 6 The Day the Music Died: The Invisible Republic in Steve Erickson’s Shadowbahn

Chapter 7 “The direction of the bizarre”: Reimagining History in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

Chapter 8 Underground Airlines, Chaos, and Dehumanization

Chapter 10 American Dirt’s Trumpian Discourse and the Latinx Parodic Response

Chapter 11 Writing as Antidote: Muslim Writers Resist in Don’t Panic, I’m Islamic and Banthology

Chapter 12 Coda: Empathy in the Age of Trump: Or, Using Our Weird Cultural Moment to Reassess How Fiction Works