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Contemporary literature and the state / edited by Matthew Hart and Jim Hansen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Contemporary literature ; v. 49, no. 4.
- Contemporary literature, 0010-7484 ; v. 49, no. 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Modern--20th century--Political aspects.
- Literature, Modern.
- Romanticism--Europe.
- Romanticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Contemporary Literature and the State challenges the critical opposition between the monolithic state and the individual artist. The volume collects essays on writers as different as Samuel Beckett and Ngozi Adichie and covers historical and geographical contexts from Yorkshire to Singapore, San Francisco to Cape Town. Featuring new and established critical voices, Contemporary Literature and the State is an important new contribution to debates about the politics of literature, coming at a time when state power appears both more arbitrary and more necessary than ever.
- Contents:
- ""Contents ""; ""Matthew Hart and Jim Hansen- Introduction: Contemporary Literature and the State ""; ""Andrew Van Der Vlies- An Interviw with Jeremy Cronin ""; ""Rita Barnard- Tsotsis: On Law, the Outlaw, and the Postcolonial State ""; ""Matthew Hart- The Third English Civil War: David Peace's ""Occult History"" of Thatcherism ""; ""John Marx- Failed-State Fiction ""; ""Eric Keenaghan-Life, War, and Love: The Queer Anarchism of Robert Duncan's Poetic Action during the Vietnam War ""; ""Jim Hansen- Samuel Beckett's ""Catastrophe"" and the Theater of Pure Means ""
- ""Jini Kim Watson- The Way Ahead: The Politics and Poetics of Singapore's Developmental Landscape """"Ian Baucom-Afterword: States of Time ""; ""Contributors ""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780299232436
- 0299232433
- OCLC:
- 842283809
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb08752 hdl
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