Swallowing a World: Globalization and the Maximalist Novel by Bergholtz, Benjamin
Swallowing a World: Globalization and the Maximalist Novel by Bergholtz, Benjamin

Swallowing a World: Globalization and the Maximalist Novel

Swallowing a World offers a new theorization of the maximalist novel. Though it's typically cast as a...
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Author: Benjamin Bergholtz
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Swallowing a World: Globalization and the Maximalist Novel by Bergholtz, Benjamin

Swallowing a World: Globalization and the Maximalist Novel

$1,085.59
Swallowing a World: Globalization and the Maximalist Novel by Bergholtz, Benjamin

Swallowing a World: Globalization and the Maximalist Novel

$1,085.59
Author: Benjamin Bergholtz
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Swallowing a World offers a new theorization of the maximalist novel. Though it's typically cast as a (white, male) genre of U.S. fiction, maximalism, Benjamin Bergholtz argues, is an aesthetic response to globalization and a global phenomenon in its own right.

Bergholtz considers a selection of massive and meandering novels that crisscross from London and Lusaka to Kingston, Kabul, and Kashmir and that represent, formally reproduce, and ultimately invite reflection on the effects of globalization. Each chapter takes up a maximalist novel that simultaneously maps and formally mimics a cornerstone of globalization, such as the postcolonial culture industry (Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children), the rebirth of fundamentalism (Zadie Smith's White Teeth), the transnational commodification of violence (Marlon James's A Brief History of Seven Killings), the obstruction of knowledge by narrative (Zia Haider Rahman's In the Light of What We Know), and globalization's gendered, asymmetrical growth (Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift).

By reframing analysis of maximalism around globalization, Swallowing a World not only reimagines one of the most perplexing genres of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries but also sheds light on some of the most perplexing political problems of our precarious present.


Author: Benjamin Bergholtz
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 10/01/2024
Pages: 252
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781496231284

About the Author
Benjamin Bergholtz is an assistant professor of English at Louisiana Tech University.

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