American Literature in the Era of Trumpism

Introduction (Dolores Resano, University College Dublin).- Section One: Thinking about Fiction.- Chapter 1: Empathy and Fiction in the Trump Era (Robert Anthony Siegel, University of North Carolina Wilmington).- Chapter 2: Intersections of Literature, Politics and Narrative in a Fake News World: Huck Finn, Alice in Wonderland and Hannah Arendt's Conception of the "New" in Narrative (Karen Armstrong, York University).- Chapter 3: "The office could be any office" - Moral Responsibility, Poststructuralism and the New Sincerity in American Literature and Right-Wing Politics (Dominik Steinhilber, University of Mannheim).- Chapter 4: Writing the Resistance: Claudia Rankine's Exploration of Whiteness in The White Card (Angela Mullis, Rutgers University).- Section Two: Alternative Histories of America.- Chapter 5: Alternative Histories, Alternative Homes, Alternative Nations: Contemporary Literature and Genre in the Age of Trump (Martha Jane Nadell, Brooklyn College, CUNY).- Chapter 6: The Daythe Music Died: The Invisible Republic in Steve Erickson's Shadowbahn (Liam Kennedy, University College Dublin).- Chapter 7: "The Direction of the Bizarre": Reimagining History in Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad (Sonia Weiner, University of Tel Aviv).- Chapter 8: Underground Airlines, Entropy, and Dehumanization (Karen Hellekson, Independent Scholar).- Section Three: Subversive Humor as Contestation.- Chapter 9: How Do We Laugh about This? Literary Satire in Trump Times (Teresa Botelho, Nova University of Lisbon).- Chapter 10: Writing as Antidote: Muslim Writers Resist in Don't Panic, I'm Islamic and Banthology (Maria Mothes, University of Koblenz-Landau).- Chapter 11: "I'd get so constipated if I were you": Otessa Moshfegh's Intimate Disgust (Tim Groenland, University College Cork).-12. Coda: Empathy in the Age of Trump. Or, Using Our Weird Cultural Moment to Reassess How Fiction Works (Robert Anthony Siegel, University of North Carolina Wilmington)

Dolores Resano is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin and Visiting Scholar in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. Her current research project, funded by the European Commission, is focused on contemporary American and European literary fiction from a transatlantic perspective, with a special interest in the intersections of literature, politics, and theories of negative affect. Dr. Resano holds a PhD in Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities from the Universitat de Barcelona, with a dissertation on post-9/11 fiction, satire, and public discourse.