Abstract This essay examines Colson Whitehead's novel in relation to the museumizing of
slavery that has gained momentum since the 1990s, focusing in particular on the Living …

This book introduces the concept of'narrative instability'in order to make visible a new trend
in contemporary US popular culture, to analyze this trend's poetics, and to scrutinize its …

The American film serial of the 1920s is a particularly underresearched cinematic format.
This article investigates the genre's “time politics” in close regard to its serial structure …

Veep (2012–19) and House of Cards (2013–18), as political fictions and adaptations of UK
series, provide an opportunity to consider the political significance and thematic mode of …

I identify a prevalent but previously unremarked subgenre within contemporary narratives of
slavery: metanarratives of slavery. Metanarratives of slavery emphasize the cultural …

Tony Kushner's 2001 play Homebody/Kabul, an exploration of the aftereffects of a British
woman's disappearance in the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan, can be read as a work of …

In recent years, video games, as a particular kind of “text,” 1 have shown an increasing
awareness of their own mediality, their inner workings, and how they function. As it is still a …

Abstract (EN) The following text is an excerpt from the book Narrative Instability:
Destabilizing Identities, Realities, and Textualities in Contemporary American Popular …