@article{445939,
      recid = {445939},
      author = {Su, John J.},
      title = {Imagination and the contemporary novel [electronic  resource] /},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge ;},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 219 p.)},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"Imagination and the Contemporary Novel examines the  global preoccupation with the imagination among literary  authors with ties to former colonies of the British Empire  since the 1960s. John Su draws on a wide range of authors  including Peter Ackroyd, Monica Ali, Julian Barnes, Andre;  Brink, J.M. Coetzee, John Fowles, Amitav Ghosh, Nadine  Gordimer, Hanif Kureishi, Salman Rushdie and Zadie Smith.  This study rehabilitates the category of imagination in  order to understand a broad range of contemporary  Anglophone literature. The responses of such literature to  shifts in global capitalism have often been misunderstood  by the dominant categories of literary studies, the  postmodern and the postcolonial. As both an insightful  critique into the themes that drive a range of today's best  novelists and a bold restatement of what the imagination is  and what it means for contemporary culture, this book  breaks new ground in the study of twenty-first-century  literature"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/445939},
}