Scaling naivete : deep time and the slow bourgeoisie / Kaushik Ramu.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Ramu, Kaushik, author.

Contributor:

Saint-Amour, Paul, degree supervisor.

University of Pennsylvania. Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, degree granting institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative literature.

South Asian studies.

British & Irish literature.

Climate change.

Comparative Literature and Literary Theory--Penn dissertations.

Penn dissertations--Comparative Literature and Literary Theory.

Local Subjects:

Comparative literature.

South Asian studies.

British & Irish literature.

Climate change.

Comparative Literature and Literary Theory--Penn dissertations.

Penn dissertations--Comparative Literature and Literary Theory.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 pages)

Contained In:

Dissertations Abstracts International 83-03B.

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : University of Pennsylvania ; Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

This dissertation brings a counter-intuitive thesis to the crossing of the Environmental Humanities and postcolonial fiction: that planetary sensibilities obtain in life-worlds that are radically naive in relation to capitalist modernity. It might initially seem that the axioms against which naivete defines itself in the readings at the project's core-such as the need for mastery of the commodity-form, felicity with language, maturation in biographical time, the attainment of social and cultural relevance and world-historical subjecthood-can lend agency and critical worth to novelistic utterances in ways that are urgent and politically meaningful. Yet the reimagining of such axioms, as part of fiction's world-making, can generate speculative attitudes that open portals to the deep time of a planetary sensibility. The project finds simulations of a tradeoff between planet and capital in Global Anglophone and regional fiction, in which slow, evasive, tangential, failed, and non-dialectical ways of being ecologize the bourgeois sense of time, and pluralize what counts as agency in developmentalist schemes.

Notes:

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-03, Section: B.

Advisors: Saint-Amour, Paul; Committee members: Park, Josephine Hock-Nee; Wilson, Emily .

Department: Comparative Literature and Literary Theory.

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 2021.

Local Notes:

School code: 0175

ISBN:

9798535570808

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