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Creative criticism consciously critiques through narratives that provide sociohistorical context and analyze the political, economic, and social issues inherent in that time and place.
Even postmodernism's heyday was a glamorous afterlife, out of sync with itself and practiced as a form of subversive intertextuality. What then is post-postmodernism?
The desire to read and write, be it with charcoal or an iPhone, share in the same desire to understand and be understood, to communicate in and across time.
We are living through an era of zombie capitalism, and it is no accident that an apocalyptic necro-realism is the dominant mode of representation of our times.
"Where and to whom do I belong?" are questions that haunt immigrant and ethnic writing.
The post- and ex-anthropic seem to be merging, not just in literature, but in philosophy and theory, where once again materialisms and realisms of various forms are ascendant.
Some lit-based web presences exist to unite broad groups around the idea of reading and writing. Many function as hotbeds for literary debate.
Minimalisms do their most creative work in their suggestions and their omissions, and this paradox generates critical difficulty and epistemological anxiety around minimalist literature.
The everyday comforts of routine and faith in the predictability of our systems makes us love rather than fear the world we have made.
Essays catch us in the act of being human, offering the individual point of view in reportage, portraits, confessions, satire, and social commentary.
New Americanists are developing connections between ecocriticism, postcolonial studies, and the influence of US and global politico-military powers.
The Collaborative Turn is a series of techniques, texts, and writers that bring to the fore the collaborative mechanisms of all aesthetic production.
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