Hari Kunzru / edited by Kristian Shaw and Sara Upstone.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shaw, Kristian, editor.

Upstone, Sara, editor.

Series:

Twenty-first century perspectives.

Twenty-first century perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kunzru, Hari, 1969---Criticism and interpretation.

Kunzru, Hari.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This is an edited collection on Hari Kunzru. With new individual essays on each of Kunzru's novels as well as his short fiction and creative non-fiction, the book situates his writing within current debates on contemporary literature, and in relation to key historical events such as Brexit, the election of Trump, and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Contents:

Introduction: 'Adding Up to an Unknown': the elusive fictions of Hari Kunzru / Kristian Shaw and Sara Upstone

1 'Walking into Whiteness': The Impressionist and the routes of empire / Churnjeet Mahn

2 'It was the revenge of the uncontrollable world': Transmission and COVID-19' / Lucienne Loh

3 Turning the tide, or turning around in My Revolutions / Maelle Jeanniard du Dot

4 Subjectivity at its limits: fugitive community in Kunzru's short stories / Peter Ely

5 The fiction of every-era/no-era: Gods Without Men as 'translit' / Bran Nicol

6 'Eyes, ears, head, memory, heart': transglossic rhythms in Memory Palace and Twice Upon a Time / Sara Upstone

7 'The ghost is him': the echoes of racism, non-being and haunting in White Tears / David Hering

8 'Food for the wolves': the rise of the alt-right in Red Pill / Kristian Shaw

9 'In the wake of all that': a conversation with Hari Kunzru / Kristian Shaw

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781526155214

1526155214

OCLC:

1376233663