New Global Realism : Thinking Totality in the Contemporary Novel / Gabriele Lazzari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lazzari, Gabriele, author.

Series:

New Horizons in Contemporary Writing.

New Horizons in Contemporary Writing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--21st century.

Fiction.

Realism in literature.

Whole and parts (Philosophy) in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction - New Global Realism: Totality, Scale, and Humanistic Truth Chapter 1 - Intensive Localization: Geographies of Violence and Displacement in Fernanda Melchor and NoViolet Bulawayo Chapter 2 - Combination in the Semi-Peripheral Novel: Vivek Shanbhag and Nicola Lagioia Chapter 3 - Juxtaposition: Revisiting Histories of Race and Migration in Igiaba Scego and Yaa Gyasi Chapter 4 - Scaling Up to the Extensive Totality Conclusion - Global Comparative Futures Bibliography

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350385696

1350385697

9781350385702

1350385700

9781350385689

1350385689

OCLC:

1436833560