Contemporaries

Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to converse with one another more directly and informally than in traditional academic publications. These curated conversations, or “clusters,” range from sets of relatively autonomous short essays on a common theme to extended epistolary exchanges.

Mobilizing Literature: A Response

Introduction

Dan Sinykin and Francisco Robles

Mapping the Territory

Adam Kelly

Social Movements, Literature and the Specters of Empire

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

Left Lineages of Post-45 Literature

Cheryl Higashida

Inner Weather

Irvin Hunt

“What Do We Think We’re Doing Anyway”: On Activism and Post-45 Literature

Patricia Stuelke

Not So Systematically

Cristina Pérez Jiménez

Social Movements, Institutions, and Multiethnic Literatures of the US

Francisco E. Robles

Institutional Recalcitrance, Institutional Refractions

Dan Sinykin

Moving Beyond Institutionalism

Jeffrey Lawrence

Past clusters