Global Wallace : David Foster Wallace and world literature / Lucas Thompson.
2016
PS3573.A425635 Z88 2016 (Mapit)
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Title
Global Wallace : David Foster Wallace and world literature / Lucas Thompson.
Author
Thompson, Lucas, author.
ISBN
9781501320668 (hardcover)
1501320661 (hardcover)
1501320661 (hardcover)
Published
New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 271 pages ; 23 cm.
Call Number
PS3573.A425635 Z88 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.54
Summary
"David Foster Wallace is invariably seen as an emphatically American figure. Lucas Thompson challenges this consensus, arguing that Wallace's investments in various international literary traditions are central to both his artistic practice and his critique of US culture. Thompson shows how, time and again, Wallace's fiction draws on a diverse range of global texts, appropriating various forms of world literature in the attempt to craft fiction that critiques US culture from oblique and unexpected vantage points. Using a wide range of comparative case studies, and drawing on extensive archival research, Global Wallace reveals David Foster Wallace's substantial debts to such unexpected figures as Jamaica Kincaid, Julio Cortázar, Jean Rhys, Octavio Paz, Leo Tolstoy, Zbigniew Herbert, and Albert Camus, among many others. It also offers a more comprehensive account of the key influences that Wallace scholars have already perceived, such as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, and Manuel Puig. By reassessing Wallace's body of work in relation to five broadly construed geographic territories -- Latin America, Russia, Eastern Europe, France, and Africa -- the book reveals the mechanisms with which Wallace played particular literary traditions off one another, showing how he appropriated vastly different global texts within his own fiction. By expanding the geographic coordinates of Wallace's work in this way, Global Wallace reconceptualizes contemporary American fiction, as being embedded within a global exchange of texts and ideas"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-263) and index.
Series
David Foster Wallace studies ; 1.
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Table of Contents
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Series Editor's Introduction
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Wallace and the World
Chapter One. Wallace and World Literature
Chapter Two. Wallace and Latin America
Chapter Three. Wallace and Russia
Chapter Four. Wallace and Eastern Europe: Kafka and Others
Chapter Five. French Existentialism's Afterlives: Wallace and the Fiction of the U.S. South
Chapter Six. African-American Appropriations: Race, Hip-Hop, and Popular Anthropology
Conclusion. "It's a Small Continent After All"? Wallace and the World
Bibliography
Index.
Series Editor's Introduction
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Wallace and the World
Chapter One. Wallace and World Literature
Chapter Two. Wallace and Latin America
Chapter Three. Wallace and Russia
Chapter Four. Wallace and Eastern Europe: Kafka and Others
Chapter Five. French Existentialism's Afterlives: Wallace and the Fiction of the U.S. South
Chapter Six. African-American Appropriations: Race, Hip-Hop, and Popular Anthropology
Conclusion. "It's a Small Continent After All"? Wallace and the World
Bibliography
Index.