Ganguly This Thing Called the World

The Contemporary Novel as Global Form
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7424-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Debjani Ganguly theorizes the contemporary global novel and the social and historical conditions that shaped it, showing how in 1989 the consolidation of the information age, the perpetual state of war, and the focus on humanitarianism transformed the novel into a form that addresses contemporary social, technological, and political upheavals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ganguly, Debjani

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

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

Über Autor(innen)

Debjani Ganguly is Professor of English and Director of the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Caste and Dalit Lifeworlds: Postcolonial Perspectives.