Toward the Geopolitical Novel

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-231-16441-2
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 390 g

Reihe: Literature Now

Caren Irr's survey of more than 125 novels outlines the dramatic resurgence of the American political novel in the twenty-first century. She explores the writings of Chris Abani, Susan Choi, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Díaz, Dave Eggers, Jeffrey Eugenides, Aleksandar Hemon, Hari Kunzru, Dinaw Mengestu, Norman Rush, Gary Shteyngart, and others as they rethink stories of migration, the Peace Corps, nationalism and neoliberalism, revolution, and the expatriate experience. Taken together, these innovations define a new literary form: the geopolitical novel. More cosmopolitan and socially critical than domestic realism, the geopolitical novel provides new ways of understanding crucial political concepts to meet the needs of a new century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Irr, Caren

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Resurgence of the Political Novel1. From Routes to Routers: The Digital Migrant Novel2. The Anxious American: Political Thrillers and the Peace Corps Fugue3. Neoliberal Allegories: The Space of Home in Contemporary International Fiction4. Ideology, Terror, and Apocalypse: The New Novel of Revolution5. Toward the World Novel: Genre Shifts in Twenty-First-Century Expatriate FictionNotesPrimary WorksBibliographyIndex

Leseproben

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Über Autor(innen)

Caren Irr is professor of English at Brandeis University and author of Pink Pirates: Contemporary American Women Writers and Copyright.