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"The office could be any office" : Toward a New Sincerity in the Age of Trumpism

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RESANO, Dolores, ed.. American Literature in the Era of Trumpism : Alternative Realities. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp. 39-63. ISBN 978-3-030-73857-0. Available under: doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-73858-7_2

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While postmodernism and deconstruction proved valuable in dismantling the hypocrisies of Nixonian doublespeak, irony, satire, and parody seem to have lost their effect as tools of dissent in a post-truth age. American mainstream culture, and particularly its political Right, have appropriated (foreshortened) poststructuralist modes of Critique, traditionally the resort of the Left. This has led to a derealization and aestheticization of political and cultural discourses and subsequently the generalized skepticism of the ‘Fake-News’ discourse that find their latest and most clear-cut example in the alternative-facts ideology of Trumpism, in which digitization and the burgeoning notion of a neoliberal marketplace of ideas have further eroded the connection between signifier and signified. Where reality becomes equivalent to reality TV, terms like truth or untruth no longer appear to hold. This chapter looks back to American literature of the New Sincerity, in particular David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King, and the possibility of a return to moral responsibility. Breaking with the poststructuralist ‘Death of the Author,’ The Pale King reestablishes an author-reader-text relationship by viewing (literary) communication as a Wittgensteinian public language game. By thus redefining reading as a reciprocal interaction between author and reader, literature and language recovers its ethically meaningful potential, an analysis that can also be applied to the language game of contemporary American politics.

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ISO 690STEINHILBER, Dominik, 2022. "The office could be any office" : Toward a New Sincerity in the Age of Trumpism. In: RESANO, Dolores, ed.. American Literature in the Era of Trumpism : Alternative Realities. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp. 39-63. ISBN 978-3-030-73857-0. Available under: doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-73858-7_2
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