Contemporary American literature has rediscovered politics. As scholars who proclaim an end of postmodernism, a post-postmodern turn, maintain, literature around the turn of the millennium has broken with the 'narcissist' playfulness of postmodernism and demonstrates a rekindled interest in addressing issues of social concern, an interest that it pursues by literary strategies nonetheless deeply shaped by postmodern aesthetics.
Bruno Arich-Gerz
Poetics of Disaster: Generic Instability and the Upgrading of Imaginativeness in The 9/11 Commission Report
Panel I: Nonfiction
20. June 2013
“Poetics of Politics: Textuality and Social Relevance in in Contemporary American Literature and Culture.” Leipzig 20-22. June 2013.
Sebastian M. Herrmann
Fog, Fact, Fiction: Narrative Blurring and Reality Effects in Larry Beinhart’s Fog Facts and The Librarian
Panel I: Nonfiction
20. June 2013
“Poetics of Politics: Textuality and Social Relevance in in Contemporary American Literature and Culture.” Leipzig 20-22. June 2013.
Carolin Alice Hofmann
Political Unease in Testimonial Nonfiction: Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Dave Eggers’s Zeitoun
Panel I: Nonfiction
20. June 2013
"Poetics of Politics: Textuality and Social Relevance in in Contemporary American Literature and Culture." Leipzig 20-22. June 2013.
Greta Olson
The Politics of Form: Analyzing Post-Post 9/11 Critical Texts
Keynote I
20. June 2013
“Poetics of Politics: Textuality and Social Relevance in in Contemporary American Literature and Culture.” Leipzig 20-22. June 2013.
Ilka Saal
‘Just as Good as the Real Thing’: Exploring
Historiopoetics in Contemporary American Literature
Keynote II
21. June 2013
“Poetics of Politics: Textuality and Social Relevance in in Contemporary American Literature and Culture.” Leipzig 20-22. June 2013.
Hans Frese
The Great American Novel and Beyond: Jonathan Franzen and the Legacy of the Culture Wars
Panel II: Narratives in Old Media
20. June 2013
“Poetics of Politics: Textuality and Social Relevance in in Contemporary American Literature and Culture.” Leipzig 20-22. June 2013.
Olesya Bondarenko
Examining the Glass and the Frame: Politics and Subjectivity in Rae Armantrout's Poetry
Panel II: Narratives in Old Media
21. June 2013
“Poetics of Politics: Textuality and Social Relevance in in Contemporary American Literature and Culture.” Leipzig 20-22. June 2013.
Frank Usbeck
Bridging the Gaps: Pop Culture and Ritual in Military Blogs from Afghanistan
Panel III: Narratives in New Media
21. June 2013
“Poetics of Politics: Textuality and Social Relevance in in Contemporary American Literature and Culture.” Leipzig 20-22. June 2013.
Stefan Schubert
‘A Man Chooses, a Slave Obeys’? Objectivism, Choice, and Narrative Agency in BioShock
Panel III: Narratives in New Media
21. June 2013
“Poetics of Politics: Textuality and Social Relevance in in Contemporary American Literature and Culture.” Leipzig 20-22. June 2013.