Télécharger le livre :  Writing Ocean Worlds

This book explores the Indian Ocean world as it is produced by colonial and postcolonial fiction in English. It analyses the work of three contemporary authors who write the Indian Ocean as a region and world—Amitav Ghosh, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Lindsey Collen—alongside...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-01-01
Collection : New Comparisons in World Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel

This book examines the representation of dictators and dictatorships in African fiction. It examines how the texts clarify the origins of postcolonial dictatorships and explore the shape of the democratic-egalitarian alternatives. The first chapter explains the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-03-01
Collection : New Comparisons in World Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  The Worlding of the South African Novel

The Worlding of the South African Novel develops from something of a paradox: that despite momentous political transition from apartheid to democracy, little in South Africa’s socio-economic reality has actually changed. Poyner discusses how the contemporary South...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-08-20
Collection : New Comparisons in World Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Postcolonial Literatures in the Local Literary Marketplace

This book asks what reading means in India, Nigeria, the UK, and Cuba, through close readings of literary texts from postcolonial, spatial, architectural, cartographic, materialist, trauma, and gender perspectives. It contextualises these close readings through new...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-08-06
Collection : New Comparisons in World Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time

Drawing on a Marxist concept of world literature, this book is a study of the manipulations of time in contemporary anglophone fiction from Africa and South Asia. Through critical work and literary reading, this research explores the times other than the present that...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-06-06
Collection : New Comparisons in World Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Postcolonial Modernity and the Indian Novel

This book argues that modernity in postcolonial India has been synonymous with catastrophe and crisis. Focusing on the literary works of the 1943 Bengal Famine, the 1967–72 Naxalbari Movement, and the 1975–77 Indian Emergency, it shows that there is a long-term,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-05-27
Collection : New Comparisons in World Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  World Literature and Ecology

Located at the intersection of world-literary studies and the environmental humanities, this book analyses how fiction and poetry respond to the ecological transformations entailed by commodity frontiers. Examining the sugar, cacao, coal, and oil frontiers in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-05-12
Collection : New Comparisons in World Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  The Global Novel and Capitalism in Crisis

This book examines how contemporary global novels by Salman Rushdie, David Mitchell, Rana Dasgupta and Rachel Kushner have evolved new aesthetics to represent global economic and ecological crises. Paying close attention to the interrelations between...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-04-29
Collection : New Comparisons in World Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Multilingualism and the Twentieth-Century Novel

This book argues that the Anglophone novel in the twentieth century is, in fact, always multilingual. Rooting its analysis in modern Europe and the Caribbean, it recognises that monolingualism, not multilingualism, is a historical and global rarity, and argues that this...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-04-17
Collection : New Comparisons in World Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Literatures of Liberalization

This book traces the global circulation of cultures and ideologies from the technological and democratic revolutions of the long nineteenth century to liberal and neoliberal modernity. Focussing on moments of coerced (colonial and postcolonial) and voluntary contact...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-11-03
Collection : New Comparisons in World Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Literary Translation and Cultural Mediators in 'Peripheral' Cultures

This book sets the grounds for a new approach exploring cultural mediators as key figures in literary and cultural history. It proposes an innovative conceptual and methodological understanding of the figure of the cultural mediator, defined as a cultural actor active...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-07-20
Collection : New Comparisons in World Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Narratives of Difference in Globalized Cultures

This book is about how the marketing of transnational cultural commodities capitalizes on difference and its appeal for cosmopolitan consumers in our postmodern globalized world. At what price? What ethical and political conundrums does the artist/writer/reader confront...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-12-07
Collection : New Comparisons in World Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Multilingualism and Modernity

This book explores multilingualism as an imaginative articulation of the experience of modernity in twentieth-century Spanish and American literature. It argues that while individual multilingual practices are highly singular, literary multilingualism exceeds the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-22
Collection : New Comparisons in World Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Narratives of Inequality

This book reveals the economic motivations underpinning colonial, neocolonial and neoliberal eras of global capitalism that are represented in critiques of inequality in postcolonial fiction. Today’s economic inequality, suffered disproportionately by indigenous and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-08
Collection : New Comparisons in World Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Literature and the Global Contemporary

This book attempts to understand what ‘contemporary’ has meant, and should mean, for literary studies. The essays in this volume suggest that an attentive reading of recent global literatures challenges the idea that our contemporary moment is best characterized as a...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-03
Collection : New Comparisons in World Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Epistolarity and World Literature, 1980-2010

This book examines the striking resurgence of the literary letter at the end of the long twentieth century. It explores how authors returned to epistolary conventions to create dialogue across national, linguistic and cultural borders and repositions a range of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-09-29
Collection : New Comparisons in World Literature
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