Global Wallace
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-4270-7 (ISBN)
Using a wide range of comparative case studies, and drawing on extensive archival research, Global Wallace reveals David Foster Wallace's substantial debts to such unexpected figures as Jamaica Kincaid, Julio Cortázar, Jean Rhys, Octavio Paz, Leo Tolstoy, Zbigniew Herbert, and Albert Camus, among many others. It also offers a more comprehensive account of the key influences that Wallace scholars have already perceived, such as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, and Manuel Puig. By reassessing Wallace's body of work in relation to five broadly construed geographic territories -- Latin America, Russia, Eastern Europe, France, and Africa -- the book reveals the mechanisms with which Wallace played particular literary traditions off one another, showing how he appropriated vastly different global texts within his own fiction. By expanding the geographic coordinates of Wallace's work in this way, Global Wallace reconceptualizes contemporary American fiction, as being embedded within a global exchange of texts and ideas.
Lucas Thompson is a Research Fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia. His primary research is on contemporary U.S. fiction and its intersections with world literature. Other research interests include aesthetics, affect, intertextuality, literary influence, and the relationship between film and literature.
Series Editor’s Introduction
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Wallace and the World
Chapter One. Wallace and World Literature
Chapter Two. Wallace and Latin America
Chapter Three. Wallace and Russia
Chapter Four. Wallace and Eastern Europe: Kafka and Others
Chapter Five. French Existentialism’s Afterlives: Wallace and the Fiction of the U.S. South
Chapter Six. African-American Appropriations: Race, Hip-Hop, and Popular Anthropology
Conclusion. “It’s a Small Continent After All”? Wallace and the World
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 05.09.2018 |
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Reihe/Serie | David Foster Wallace Studies |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 336 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5013-4270-3 / 1501342703 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-4270-7 / 9781501342707 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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