Toward the Geopolitical Novel : U.S. Fiction in the Twenty-First Century

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Irr, Caren.

Series:

Literature Now

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political fiction, American--History and criticism--21st century--United States.

Political fiction, American.

American fiction--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Politics and literature.

Globalization in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (453 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A survey of more than 125 works illuminate the resurgence of the American political novel in the twenty-first century. Caren Irr follows Junot Díaz, Helon Habila, Aleksandar Hemon, Hari Kunzru, Dinaw Mengestu, Daniyal Mueenuddin, Norman Rush, Gary Shteyngart, and others as they rethink the migration narrative, the Peace Corps thriller, the national allegory, the revolutionary novel, and the expatriate's experience with self-discovery. Taken together, these innovations define a new literary form: the geopolitical novel. More cosmopolitan and socially critical than domestic realism, the gen

Contents:

Cover; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Resurgence of the Political Novel; 1. From Routes to Routers: The Digital Migrant Novel; 2. The Anxious American: Political Thrillers and the Peace Corps Fugue; 3. Neoliberal Allegories: The Space of Home in Contemporary International Fiction; 4. Ideology, Terror, and Apocalypse: The New Novel of Revolution; 5. Toward the World Novel: Genre Shifts in Twenty-First-Century Expatriate Fiction; Notes; Primary Works; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780231536318

0231536313