Overview
- Examines a range of exemplary texts to define the generic conventions of the global novel
- Develops a world-literary theory that links texts and eco-materialist conditions
- Analyses transformations in the literary marketplace towards global rather than postcolonial novels
Part of the book series: New Comparisons in World Literature (NCWL)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines how contemporary global novels by Salman Rushdie, David Mitchell, Rana Dasgupta and Rachel Kushner have evolved new aesthetics to represent global economic and ecological crises. Paying close attention to the interrelations between postcolonial, world, and global literatures, this book argues that postcolonial literary studies cannot account for global crises that exceed the national and anti-colonial. Advocating an interdisciplinary framework informed by a synthesis of materialist literary theory with world-systems theory, combining Fredric Jameson and Georg Lukács with Giovanni Arrighi and Jason W. Moore, this book examines how global literatures metabolise not only socioeconomic conditions, but also transformations in the world-ecology, and emergent developmental and epochal crises of capitalism.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr Treasa De Loughry is Lecturer/ Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow in World Literature in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin, Ireland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Global Novel and Capitalism in Crisis
Book Subtitle: Contemporary Literary Narratives
Authors: Treasa De Loughry
Series Title: New Comparisons in World Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39325-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39324-3Published: 30 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39327-4Published: 30 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39325-0Published: 29 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-6095
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6109
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 215
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Postcolonial/World Literature, Comparative Literature, Contemporary Literature