J. Green 
Late Postmodernism 
American Fiction at the Millennium

Does the novel have a future? Questions of this kind, which are as old as the novel itself, acquired a fresh urgency at the end of the twentieth-century with the rise of new media and the relegation of literature to the margins of American culture. As a result, anxieties about readership, cultural authority and literary value have come to preoccupy a second generation of postmodern novelists. Through close analysis of several major novels of the past decade, including works by Don De Lillo, Philip Roth, Kathryn Davis, Jonathan Franzen and Richard Powers, Late Postmodernism examines the forces shaping contemporary literature and the remarkable strategies American writers have adopted to make sense of their place in culture.

Table of Content

Introduction Late Postmodernism and the Literary Field The Novel and the Death of Literature Jonathan Franzen, Oprah Winfrey and the Future of the Social Novel Late Postmodernism and Cultural Memory Pathologies of the Public Sphere Late Postmodernism and the Utopian Imagination Epilogue Bibliography

About the author

JEREMY GREEN is Assistant Professor in the English Department of the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.