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'after Critique' Identifies An Ontological Turn In Contemporary Us Fiction That Distinguishes Our Current Literary Moment From Both Postmodernism And So-called Post-postmodernism. This Turn To Ontology Takes Many Forms, But In General This Book Highlights A Body Of Literature - Work From Colson Whitehead, Uzodinma Iweala, Karen Yamashita, Helena Viramontes, Percival Everett, Mat Johnson, Kim Stanley Robinson, And Tom Mccarthy - That Favours Presence Over Absence, Being Over Meaning, And Connection Over Reference. Introduction: We Have Never Been Neoliberal: Critique's Complicity, Capitulation's Promise -- Turning To Presence: The Contingent Persons Of Human Rights Literature -- Embracing Objects: Public And Private Space In Literary Los Angeles -- Objectifying Race: Or, What African American Literature Is -- Welcoming The World: Post-ecological Fiction -- Coda: Accounting 101: Reading The Exomodern. Mitchum Huehls. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 191-204) And Index.