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Swallowing a World
- Globalization and the Maximalist Novel
Engelsk
Bogcover for Swallowing a World af Benjamin Bergholtz, 9781496231284
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781496231284
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1496231287
Udg. Dato:
1 okt 2024
Størrelse i cm:
16,0 x 23,5 x 2,2
Oplagsdato:
1 okt 2024
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Swallowing a World

- Globalization and the Maximalist Novel
Engelsk
Hardback 2024
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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.  
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781496231284
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1496231287
Udg. Dato:
1 okt 2024
Størrelse i cm:
16,0 x 23,5 x 2,2
Oplagsdato:
1 okt 2024
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