@article{1398878,
      recid = {1398878},
      author = {Marx, John.},
      title = {Geopolitics and the Anglophone novel, 1890-2011  [electronic resource] /},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, UK ;},
      pages = {1 online resource (viii, 246 pages)},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {"Literary fiction is a powerful cultural tool for  criticizing governments and for imagining how better  governance and better states would work. Combining  political theory with strong readings of a vast range of  novels, John Marx shows that fiction over the long  twentieth century has often envisioned good government not  in Utopian but in pragmatic terms. Early-twentieth-century  novels by Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster and Rabindrananth  Tagore helped forecast world government after European  imperialism. Twenty-first-century novelists such as Monica  Ali, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Michael Ondaatje and Amitav  Ghosh have inherited that legacy and continue to criticize  existing policies in order to formulate best practices on a  global scale. Marx shows how literature can make an  important contribution to political and social sciences by  creating a space to imagine and experiment with social  organization"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1398878},
}