This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form

In This Thing Called the World Debjani Ganguly theorizes the contemporary global novel and the social and...
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Author: Debjani Ganguly
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This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form by Ganguly, Debjani

This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form

€62,02

This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form

€62,02
Author: Debjani Ganguly
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In This Thing Called the World Debjani Ganguly theorizes the contemporary global novel and the social and historical conditions that shaped it. Ganguly contends that global literature coalesced into its current form in 1989, an event marked by the convergence of three major trends: the consolidation of the information age, the arrival of a perpetual state of global war, and the expanding focus on humanitarianism. Ganguly analyzes a trove of novels from authors including Salman Rushdie, Don DeLillo, Michael Ondaatje, and Art Spiegelman, who address wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka, the Palestinian and Kashmiri crises, the Rwandan genocide, and post9/11 terrorism. These novels exist in a context in which suffering's presence in everyday life is mediated through digital images and where authors integrate visual forms into their storytelling. In showing how the evolution of the contemporary global novel is analogous to the European novel's emergence in the eighteenth century, when society and the development of capitalism faced similar monumental ruptures, Ganguly provides both a theory of the contemporary moment and a reminder of the novel's power.


Author: Debjani Ganguly
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 08/12/2016
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780822361565


Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2017

About the Author
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.

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