New Global Realism: Thinking Totality in the Contemporary Novel - New Horizons in Contemporary Writing - Gabriele Lazzari - Libros - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - 9781350385672 - 19 de septiembre de 2024
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New Global Realism: Thinking Totality in the Contemporary Novel - New Horizons in Contemporary Writing


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A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent the social and economic inequalities of the present, this book examines writing in English, Italian, Kannada, and Spanish by authors from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Italy, India and Mexico. By theorizing four modalities of totalization employed by contemporary realist writers, this book explores the current resurgence of realism and challenges critical approaches that consider it naive or formally unsophisticated. Instead, it argues that realist novels offer a self-conscious and serious representation of the world we inhabit while actively envisioning new social designs and political configurations.

Through comparative studies of novels by Fernanda Melchor, NoViolet Bulawayo, Vivek Shanbhag, Nicola Lagioia, Igiaba Scego, Yaa Gyasi and Roberto Bolaño, this book further explains why realism can be a powerful antidote to the skepticism about the possibility of making truth-claims in humanist research.


240 pages

Medios de comunicación Libros     Hardcover Book   (Libro con lomo y cubierta duros)
Publicado 19 de septiembre de 2024
ISBN13 9781350385672
Editores Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Páginas 240
Dimensiones 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   512 g

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