Shaw / Unknown / Upstone Hari Kunzru

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5521-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten

Reihe: Twenty-First Century Perspectives

This is the first edited collection on Hari Kunzru. With new individual essays on each of Kunzru’s novels as well as his short fiction and creative non-fiction, the book situates his writing within current debates on contemporary literature, and in relation to key historical events such as Brexit, the election of Trump, and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Shaw, Kristian

Upstone, Sara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: ‘Adding Up to an Unknown’: the elusive fictions of Hari Kunzru – Kristian Shaw and Sara Upstone
1 ‘Walking into Whiteness’: The Impressionist and the routes of empire – Churnjeet Mahn
2 ‘It was the revenge of the uncontrollable world’: Transmission and COVID-19’ – Lucienne Loh
3 Turning the tide, or turning around in My Revolutions – Maëlle Jeanniard du Dot
4 Subjectivity at its limits: fugitive community in Kunzru’s short stories – Peter Ely
5 The fiction of every-era/no-era: Gods Without Men as ‘translit’ – Bran Nicol
6 ‘Eyes, ears, head, memory, heart’: transglossic rhythms in Memory Palace and Twice Upon a Time – Sara Upstone
7 ‘The ghost is him’: the echoes of racism, non-being and haunting in White Tears – David Hering
8 'Food for the wolves': the rise of the alt-right in Red Pill – Kristian Shaw
9 ‘In the wake of all that’: a conversation with Hari Kunzru – Kristian Shaw

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Upstone Sara:
Sara Upstone is Lecturer in English Literature at Kingston UniversityKristian Shaw is Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Lincoln

Sara Upstone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Faculty Director of Postgraduate Research at Kingston School of Art, Kingston University