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Literature and the Global Contemporary [electronic resource] / edited by Sarah Brouillette, Mathias Nilges, Emilio Sauri.

Brouillette, Sarah, editor.; Nilges, Mathias, editor.; Sauri, Emilio, editor.
2017
PN851-884
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Title
Literature and the Global Contemporary [electronic resource] / edited by Sarah Brouillette, Mathias Nilges, Emilio Sauri.
ISBN
3319630555
9783319630557
9783319630540 (hbk.)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63055-7
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
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English
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1 online resource (XXXVIII, 201 pages).
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10.1007/978-3-319-63055-7 doi
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PN851-884
Dewey Decimal Classification
809
Summary
This book attempts to understand what 'contemporary' has meant, and should mean, for literary studies. The essays in this volume suggest that an attentive reading of recent global literatures challenges the idea that our contemporary moment is best characterized as a timeless, instantaneous 'now'. The contributors to this book argue that global literatures help us to conceive of the contemporary as an always plural, heterogeneous, and contested temporality. Far from suggesting that we replace theories of an omnipresent 'end of history' with a traditional, single, diachronic timeline, this book encourages the development of such a timeline's rigorous inverse: a synchronic, multi-faceted and multi-temporal history of the contemporary in literature, and thus of contemporary global literatures. It opens up the concept of the contemporary for comparative study by unlocking its temporal, logical, political, and ultimately aesthetic and literary complexity.
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Brouillette, Sarah, editor.
Nilges, Mathias, editor.
Sauri, Emilio, editor.
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New comparisons in world literature.
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1. Introduction: "Contemporaneity: On Refusing to Live in the Moment"; Sarah Brouillette, Emilio Sauri, and Mathias Nilges
2. "The Landowner's Ghosts: Realism and Financialization in Contemporary Latin American Fiction"; Ericka Beckman
3. "'Special Period'-izing Cuba: Limits of the Past Perfect"; Jonathan Dettman
4. "Autonomy after Autonomy, or the Novel beyond Nation: Roberto Bolaño's 2666"; Emilio Sauri
5. "#YOLO"; Sarah Brouillette
6. "Capitalism's Long-Spiral: Periodicity, Temporality, and the Global Contemporary in World-Literature"; Sharae Deckard
7. "The Technical Composition of Conceptualism"; Joshua Clover
8. "The Multitemporal Contemporary: Colson Whitehead's Presents"; Daniel Grausam
9. "Periodizing the Anglophone African Novel: Location(s) in a Transnational Literary Marketplace"; Madhu Krishnan
10. "Juggling the Dialectic: The Abyss of Politics in Chris Abani's Fiction"; Mitchum Huehls
11. "Contemporaneity and Contradiction: Uneven Temporal Development in Bridgett M. Davis's Into the Go-Slow and Okey Ndibe's Foreign Gods Inc."; Mathias Nilges
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