Political fiction / editor, Mark Levene, University of Toronto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levene, Mark, editor.

Series:

Critical insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political fiction--History and criticism.

Political fiction.

Politics in literature.

Fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

xxx, 259 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc., Grey House Publishing, [2014]

Contents:

Critical contexts. In search of the Great American political novel of the Vietnam war / Philip Beidler ; From the stricken community to the solitary night mind: the politics of time, space, and otherness in American fiction after 9/11 / Lucy Bond ; Wounded nations: politics and postcolonial literature / Chelva Kanaganayakam ; The retreat from politics in political fiction / Robert Boyers

Critical readings. Joseph Conrad: the art of political fiction / Jakob Lothe ; "In the heart of a labyrinth": J.M. Coetzee and political emotions / Patrick Hayes ; Amitav Ghosh and the exclusivism of empire / John Thieme ; Surveillance and the "poetics of silence": late modernist imagism in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four / Patricia Rae ; "You can't live there": Weimar under the Palms and the German Democratic Republic in Christ Wolf's City of Angels or, The overcoat of Dr. Freud / Margaret Scanlan ; Doris Lessing: "Political in the most basic sense" / Alice Ridout ; Robert Stone's A Flag for Sunrise: a political novel / Mark Levene ; The demands and limits of "felt life" in Don De Lillo's Underworld / Paul McCormick ; "Who is the enemy?": waste and violence in Deborah Eisenberg's short fiction / Michael Trussler

Resources.

Notes:

Edition statement supplied by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1619254115

9781619254114

OCLC:

892340518

Publisher Number:

99961252553