| Description |
1 online resource (240 pages) |
| Contents |
""Contents ""; ""Matthew Hart and Jim Hansen- Introduction: Contemporary Literature and the State ""; ""Andrew Van Der Vlies- An Interviw with Jeremy Cronin ""; ""Rita Barnard- Tsotsis: On Law, the Outlaw, and the Postcolonial State ""; ""Matthew Hart- The Third English Civil War: David Peace's ""Occult History"" of Thatcherism ""; ""John Marx- Failed-State Fiction ""; ""Eric Keenaghan-Life, War, and Love: The Queer Anarchism of Robert Duncan's Poetic Action during the Vietnam War ""; ""Jim Hansen- Samuel Beckett's ""Catastrophe"" and the Theater of Pure Means "" |
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""Jini Kim Watson- The Way Ahead: The Politics and Poetics of Singapore's Developmental Landscape """"Ian Baucom-Afterword: States of Time ""; ""Contributors "" |
| Summary |
Annotation. Contemporary Literature and the Statechallenges the critical opposition between the monolithic state and the individual artist. The volume collects essays on writers as different as Samuel Beckett and Ngozi Adichie and covers historical and geographical contexts from Yorkshire to Singapore, San Francisco to Cape Town. Featuring new and established critical voices, Contemporary Literature and the Stateis an important new contribution to debates about the politics of literature, coming at a time when state power appears both more arbitrary and more necessary than ever |
| Audience |
Scholarly & Professional University of Wisconsin Press |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- Political aspects
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Romanticism -- Europe
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Literature, Modern -- Political aspects.
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Romanticism.
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Europe.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hansen, Jim.
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| ISBN |
9780299232443 |
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0299232441 |
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