%0 Journal Article 
%A Bolaño Quintero, Jesús
%T The transcendentalist turn of the new post-postmodern American literature
%D 2020
%@ 1887-5238
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/29825
%X This  article  responds  to  the debate  in  the  field  of  literary  theory around  the  nature  of  post-postmodern American  novels.  While  some  authors claimed  at  the  turn  of  the  millennium that the novel was dead, a new genera-tion of American writers were responsi-ble for a new engagement with the gen-re on the part of the public. With this in mind,  this  study  seeks  to  shed  light  on the  nature  of  the  literature  written  by young   novelists   seeking   to   distance themselves  from  the  dead  end  of  post-modernism.  Our  premise  is  that  during the  crisis  that  brings  about  a  rethinking of  the  concept  of  postmodernity,  the young  American  authors  turned  their gaze towards ideas from American tran-scendentalism as a tool to recover the unfinished Project of modernity.
%K American transcendentalism
%K post-postmodernism
%K unfinished project of modernity
%K American literature
%~ Universidad de Cádiz