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Author Patterson, Annabel M., author.

Title The international novel / Annabel Patterson
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 261 pages)
Contents Introduction -- E.M. Forster, A passage to India -- Ivo Andrić, The bridge on the Drina -- Ismail Kadare, Chronicle in stone: the costs of being small -- Gabriel García Márquez, The autumn of the patriarch -- Sahar Khalifeh, Wild thorns: the worst boundary problem in the world -- V.S. Naipaul, A bend in the river -- Nuruddin Farah, Maps -- Rhea Galanaki, The life of Ismail Ferik Pasha: the trouble with Crete -- Salman Rushdie, The satanic verses -- Orhan Pamuk, Snow -- Roberto Bolaño, 2666: apocalypse in a border town -- Khaled Hosseini, A thousand splendid suns: and some conclusions
Summary Annabel Patterson here turns her well-known concern with political history in early modern England into an engine for investigating our own era and a much wider terrain. The focus of this book is, broadly, nationalism and internationalism today, approached not theoretically but through the lens of fiction. Novels are uniquely capable of dealing with abstract problems by embodying them in the experience of persons, thereby rendering them more "real." Patterson takes twelve novels from (almost) all over the world: India, Africa, Turkey, Crete, the Balkans, Palestine, Afghanistan, South America, and Mexico, novels which illustrate the dire effects of some of the following: imperialism, partition, annexation, ethnic and religious strife, boundaries redrawn by aggression, the virus of dictatorships, the vulnerability of small countries, and the meddling of the Great Powers. All are highly instructive, and excellent reads
Notes "Maps by Daniel Mugaburu"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
Internationalism in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
Fiction
Internationalism in literature
Nationalism in literature
Romaner -- historia.
Internationalism i litteraturen.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
Literature: history & criticism.
Globalization.
Human geography.
Literature.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Mugaburu, Daniel M., 1976- cartographer.
ISBN 030021040X
9780300210408