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This Thing Called the World
The Contemporary Novel as Global Form
Taschenbuch von Debjani Ganguly
Sprache: Englisch

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In This Thing Called the World Debjani Ganguly theorizes the contemporary global novel and the social and historical conditions that shaped it. Ganguly contends that global literature coalesced into its current form in 1989, an event marked by the convergence of three major trends: the consolidation of the information age, the arrival of a perpetual state of global war, and the expanding focus on humanitarianism. Ganguly analyzes a trove of novels from authors including Salman Rushdie, Don DeLillo, Michael Ondaatje, and Art Spiegelman, who address wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka, the Palestinian and Kashmiri crises, the Rwandan genocide, and post9/11 terrorism. These novels exist in a context in which suffering's presence in everyday life is mediated through digital images and where authors integrate visual forms into their storytelling. In showing how the evolution of the contemporary global novel is analogous to the European novel's emergence in the eighteenth century, when society and the development of capitalism faced similar monumental ruptures, Ganguly provides both a theory of the contemporary moment and a reminder of the novel's power.
In This Thing Called the World Debjani Ganguly theorizes the contemporary global novel and the social and historical conditions that shaped it. Ganguly contends that global literature coalesced into its current form in 1989, an event marked by the convergence of three major trends: the consolidation of the information age, the arrival of a perpetual state of global war, and the expanding focus on humanitarianism. Ganguly analyzes a trove of novels from authors including Salman Rushdie, Don DeLillo, Michael Ondaatje, and Art Spiegelman, who address wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka, the Palestinian and Kashmiri crises, the Rwandan genocide, and post9/11 terrorism. These novels exist in a context in which suffering's presence in everyday life is mediated through digital images and where authors integrate visual forms into their storytelling. In showing how the evolution of the contemporary global novel is analogous to the European novel's emergence in the eighteenth century, when society and the development of capitalism faced similar monumental ruptures, Ganguly provides both a theory of the contemporary moment and a reminder of the novel's power.
Über den Autor
Debjani Ganguly
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. Real Virtualities and the Undead Genre 39

Part I. World

2. World-Making and Possible Worlds 69

3. Spectral Worlds, Networked Novel 87

4. From Midnight's Child to Clown Assassin 110

Part II. War

5. Visualizing Wartime: A Literary Genealogy 135

6. The Sky Is Falling: The Narrative Screen of Terror 157

Part III. Witness

7. This I Saw: Graphic Suffering 175

8. Forensic Witnessing: The (Non)Evidence of Bones 192

9. Affective Witnessing: Orphic Netherworlds 219

Coda 249

Notes 261

Bibliography 279

Index 293
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780822361565
ISBN-10: 0822361566
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ganguly, Debjani
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Debjani Ganguly
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.08.2016
Gewicht: 0,457 kg
Artikel-ID: 104187504
Über den Autor
Debjani Ganguly
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. Real Virtualities and the Undead Genre 39

Part I. World

2. World-Making and Possible Worlds 69

3. Spectral Worlds, Networked Novel 87

4. From Midnight's Child to Clown Assassin 110

Part II. War

5. Visualizing Wartime: A Literary Genealogy 135

6. The Sky Is Falling: The Narrative Screen of Terror 157

Part III. Witness

7. This I Saw: Graphic Suffering 175

8. Forensic Witnessing: The (Non)Evidence of Bones 192

9. Affective Witnessing: Orphic Netherworlds 219

Coda 249

Notes 261

Bibliography 279

Index 293
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780822361565
ISBN-10: 0822361566
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ganguly, Debjani
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Debjani Ganguly
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.08.2016
Gewicht: 0,457 kg
Artikel-ID: 104187504
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