Benjamin Bergholtz

Swallowing a World

Globalization and the Maximalist Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

Swallowing a World analyzes a series of massive and meandering late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century texts that represent, formally reproduce, and ultimately invite reflection upon the effects of globalization to show that contemporary maximalism is an aesthetic response to globalization and a global phenomenon in its own right.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9781496231284
• ISBN-10: 1496231287
• Artikelnr.: 71234767

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Bergholtz is an assistant professor of English at Louisiana Tech University.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mapping the Maximalist Novel
1. See the Whole World, Come See Everything! Midnight’s Children and the
Postcolonial Culture Industry
2. Certainty in Its Purest Form: Globalization, Fundamentalism, and
Narrative in White Teeth
3. It Shouldn’t Produce No Pretty Sentence, Ever: Violence and Aesthetics
in A Brief History of Seven Killings
4. The Pursuit of Knowledge: The Paradoxes of Postcolonial Encyclopedism in
In the Light of What We Know
5. Two Dumb Inertias: The Uneven Drift of Globalization in The Old Drift
Conclusion: The Future of Maximalist Fiction
Notes
Bibliography
Index