Literature and the Global Contemporary

Book Overview

1. Introduction: "Contemporaneity: On Refusing to Live in the Moment"; Sarah Brouillette, Emilio Sauri, and Mathias Nilges.- 2. "The Landowner's Ghosts: Realism and Financialization in Contemporary Latin American Fiction"; Ericka Beckman.- 3. "'Special Period'-izing Cuba: Limits of the Past Perfect"; Jonathan Dettman.- 4. "Autonomy after Autonomy, or the Novel beyond Nation: Roberto Bola?o's 2666"; Emilio Sauri.- 5. "#YOLO"; Sarah Brouillette.- 6. "Capitalism's Long-Spiral: Periodicity, Temporality, and the Global Contemporary in World-Literature"; Sharae Deckard.- 7. "The Technical Composition of Conceptualism"; Joshua Clover.- 8. "The Multitemporal Contemporary: Colson Whitehead's Presents"; Daniel Grausam.- 9. "Periodizing the Anglophone African Novel: Location(s) in a Transnational Literary Marketplace"; Madhu Krishnan.- 10. "Juggling the Dialectic: The Abyss of Politics in Chris Abani's Fiction"; Mitchum Huehls.- 11. "Contemporaneity and Contradiction: Uneven Temporal Development in Bridgett M. Davis's Into the Go-Slow and Okey Ndibe's Foreign Gods Inc."; Mathias Nilges.- Index.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319874640
• ISBN13: 9783319874647
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"