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"Taking as key examples work by Don DeLillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Roberto Bolaäno, and Karen Tei Yamashita, this book delineates a new trend in recent fiction of looking for new ways to approach 'totality', a trend which reclaims 'totality' as a method for approaching the contemporary, rather than an object to be represented. In this we can find some of the most radical attempts in recent fiction to reimagine our world in the face of an unstable future. Where, to date, major studies of literary encyclopaedism have focused on the West and its canon, this book moves beyond these subjects,…mehr

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"Taking as key examples work by Don DeLillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Roberto Bolaäno, and Karen Tei Yamashita, this book delineates a new trend in recent fiction of looking for new ways to approach 'totality', a trend which reclaims 'totality' as a method for approaching the contemporary, rather than an object to be represented. In this we can find some of the most radical attempts in recent fiction to reimagine our world in the face of an unstable future. Where, to date, major studies of literary encyclopaedism have focused on the West and its canon, this book moves beyond these subjects, examining work by Native American and Latin American authors as well as their North American counterparts. In so doing, it offers an original way of addressing the challenge of reading world literature in a postcolonial context"--
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Autorenporträt
Kiron Ward is a Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of St Andrews, UK.His latest publications include Don DeLillo: Contemporary Critical Perspectives and Enycyclopedia Joyce (2018).