Literature and the Global Contemporary
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This book attempts to understand what 'contemporary' has meant, and should mean, for literary studies. The essays in this volume suggest that an attentive reading of recent global literatures challenges the idea that our contemporary moment is best characterized as a timeless, instantaneous 'now'. The contributors to this book argue that global literatures help us to conceive of the contemporary as an always plural, heterogeneous, and contested temporality. Far from suggesting that we replace theories of an omnipresent 'end of history' with a traditional, single, diachronic timeline, this book encourages the development of such a timeline's rigorous inverse: a synchronic, multi-faceted and multi-temporal history of the contemporary in literature, and thus of contemporary global literatures. It opens up the concept of the contemporary for comparative study by unlocking its temporal, logical, political, and ultimately aesthetic and literary complexity.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
ISBN
9783319630557
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism for Comparative Literature
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. Contributors
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1 The Landowner’s Ghosts: Realism and Financialization in Contemporary Latin American Fiction
  6. Chapter 2 “Special Period”-izing Cuba: Limits of the Past Perfect
  7. Chapter 3 Autonomy After Autonomy, or the Novel Beyond Nation: Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
  8. Chapter 4 #YOLO
  9. Chapter 5 Capitalism’s Long Spiral: Periodicity, Temporality and the Global Contemporary in World Literature
  10. Chapter 6 The Technical Composition of Conceptualism
  11. Chapter 7 The Multitemporal Contemporary: Colson Whitehead’s Presents
  12. Chapter 8 Periodizing the Anglophone African Novel: Location(s) in a Transnational Literary Marketplace
  13. Chapter 9 Juggling the Dialectic: The Abyss of Politics in Chris Abani’s Fiction
  14. Chapter 10 Contemporaneity and Contradiction: Uneven Temporal Development in Bridgett M. Davis’s into the Go-Slow and Okey Ndie’s Foreign Gods Inc.
  15. Index