From Empire to Anthropocene: The Novel in Posthistorical Times

by Betty Joseph

How contemporary novels use narrative time to counter cultural homogenization and historical flattening.

In From Empire to Anthropocene, Betty Joseph celebrates how contemporary fiction contributes to a novel framing of world literature by playing with our understanding of time. Bringing together an unusual constellation of writers--including Jamaica Kincaid, Teju Cole, Hari Kunzru, and Barbara Kingsolver--Joseph traces how...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421446979
• ISBN13: 9781421446974
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"