Contents
Introduction - Jason Gladstone and Daniel Worden
Part I. Dialogue
Postmodern, Postwar, Contemporary: A Dialogue on the Field - Andrew Hoberek, with Samuel Cohen, Amy J. Elias, Mary Esteve, Matthew Hart, and David James
Part II. The Postmodern Revisited
Break, Period, Interregnum - Brian McHale
Cold War Postmodernism - Harilaos Stecopoulos
How Postmodernism Became Earnest - David James
Reperiodizing the Postmodern: Textualizing the World System Before and After 9/11 - Leerom Medovoi
Mapping Postmodernism and After - Emilio Sauri
Part III. The Postwar Reconfigured
The Idea of Happiness: Back to the Postwar Future - Mary Esteve
Cold War, Post–Cold War: What Was (Is) the Cold War? - Daniel Grausam
The Forms of Formal Realism: Literary Study and the Life Cycle of the Novel - Deak Nabers
Perpetual Interwar - Paul K. Saint-Amour
Part IV. What Comes After
Six Propositions on Compromise Aesthetics - Rachel Greenwald Smith
The New Sincerity - Adam Kelly
Influences of the Digital - N. Katherine Hayles
The Resurgence of the Political Novel - Caren Irr
The Currency of the Contemporary - Theodore Martin
Make It Vanish - Michael W. Clune
Slow-Forward to the Future - Ursula K. Heise
Contributors’ Biographies
Index