%0 Book %A Julia Nikiel %A Izabella Kimak %D 2019 %C Berlin, Germany %I Peter Lang Verlag %@ 2191-2254 %@ 9783631799659 %T Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Culture %R 10.3726/b16041 %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1057681 %X The essays included in this collection offer an overview of literary works, films, TV series, and visual art which reflect the current (post-)millennial fascination with theorizing ends and beginnings. The contributions intend to x-ray the most crucial aspects of contemporary North-American literature and culture. Addressing a variety of media, the authors of the essays gathered in the book wonder at the ongoing spectacle of exhaustion and regeneration which is playing itself out on the American stage. %K films and TV series, music and art, graphic novel, cartoon, multimedia, US politics, Indigenous studies, alienation, healing, subjectivity, posthumanism, (post-)apocalypse, neoliberalism, eco-aesthetics, consumer culture %G English