New Global Realism
Thinking Totality in the Contemporary Novel
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2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-38567-2 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
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A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent the social and economic inequalities of the present, this book examines writing in English, Italian, Kannada, and Spanish by authors from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Italy, India and Mexico.
By theorizing four modalities of totalization employed by contemporary realist writers, this book explores the current resurgence of realism and challenges critical approaches that consider it naive or formally unsophisticated. Instead, it argues that realist novels offer a self-conscious and serious representation of the world we inhabit while actively envisioning new social designs and political configurations. Through comparative studies of novels by Fernanda Melchor, NoViolet Bulawayo, Vivek Shanbhag, Nicola Lagioia, Igiaba Scego, Yaa Gyasi and Roberto Bolaño, this book further explains why realism can be a powerful antidote to the skepticism about the possibility of making truth-claims in humanist research.
By theorizing four modalities of totalization employed by contemporary realist writers, this book explores the current resurgence of realism and challenges critical approaches that consider it naive or formally unsophisticated. Instead, it argues that realist novels offer a self-conscious and serious representation of the world we inhabit while actively envisioning new social designs and political configurations. Through comparative studies of novels by Fernanda Melchor, NoViolet Bulawayo, Vivek Shanbhag, Nicola Lagioia, Igiaba Scego, Yaa Gyasi and Roberto Bolaño, this book further explains why realism can be a powerful antidote to the skepticism about the possibility of making truth-claims in humanist research.
Gabriele Lazzari is a Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at the University of Surrey, UK.
Introduction – New Global Realism: Totality, Scale, and Humanistic Truth
Chapter 1 – Intensive Localization: Geographies of Violence and Displacement in Fernanda Melchor and NoViolet Bulawayo
Chapter 2 – Combination in the Semi-Peripheral Novel: Vivek Shanbhag and Nicola Lagioia
Chapter 3 – Juxtaposition: Revisiting Histories of Race and Migration in Igiaba Scego and Yaa Gyasi
Chapter 4 – Scaling Up to the Extensive Totality
Conclusion – Global Comparative Futures
Bibliography
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.9.2024 |
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Reihe/Serie | New Horizons in Contemporary Writing |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-38567-0 / 1350385670 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-38567-2 / 9781350385672 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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