This edited collection offers an exploration of American literature in  the age of Trumpism—understood as an ongoing sociopolitical and  affective reality—by bringing together analyses of some of the ways in  which American writers have responded to the derealization of political  culture in the United States and the experience of a ‘new’ American  reality after 2016. The volume’s premise is that the disruptions and  dislocations that were so exacerbated by the political ascendancy of  Trump and his spectacle-laden presidency have unsettled core assumptions  about American reality and the possibilities of representation. The  blurring of the relationship between fact and fiction, bolstered by the  discourses of ‘fake news’ and ‘alternative facts,’ has not only drawn  attention to the shattering of any notion of ‘shared’ reality, but has  also forced a reexamination of the purpose and value of literature,  especially when considering its troubled relation to the representation  of ‘America.’ The authors in this collection respond to the invitation  to reassess the workings of fiction and critique in an age of Trumpism  by considering some of the most recent literary responses to the (new)  American realit(ies)—including works by Colson Whitehead, Ben Winters,  Claudia Rankine, Gary Shteyngart, Jennifer Egan, and Steve Erickson, to  name but a few—, some of which were composed in the run-up to the 2016  election but were able to accurately and incisively imagine the world to  come. 

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