New Approaches to the Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Novel

Sibylle Baumbach is a Professor of English Literatures at Stuttgart University (Germany). Birgit Neumann is a Professor of English Literature and Anglophone Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (Germany).

• Chapter 1. The Novel — An Undead Genre (Sibylle Baumbach and Birgit Neumann).- Chapter 2. Human Rights and Transnational Justice in the Contemporary Anglophone Novel: J.M. Coetzee’s Disgraceand Achmat Dangor’s Bitter Fruit (Sangina Patnaik).- Chapter 3. The Economy of Attention and the Novel (Sibylle Baumbach).- Chapter 4. Twenty-First-Century Fictional Experiments with Emotion and Cognition (Suzanne Keen).- Chapter 5. ‘Reality Hunger,’ Documentarism, and Fragmentation in Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Novels (Alexander Scherr and Ansgar Nünning).- Chapter 6. Cli-Fi: Environmental Literature for the Anthropocene (Laura Wright).- Chapter 7. The Animal Novel That Therefore This is Not? (Kari Weil).- Chapter 8. We Have Always Already Been Becoming Posthuman? Posthumanism in Theory and (Reading) Practice (Roman Bartosch).- Chapter 9. What is ‘the’ Neoliberal Novel? Neoliberalism, Finance, and Biopolitics (Arne De Boever).- Chapter 10. The Novel after 9/11: From Ground Zero to the “War on Terror” (Michael C. Frank).- Chapter 11. Post-National Futures in Nationalist Contexts? Reading ‘British’ Fictions of Artificial Intelligence (Will Slocombe).- Chapter 12. Anglophone World Literature and Glocal Memories: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss (Birgit Neumann).- Chapter 13. Afropolitanism and the Novel: Mapping Material Networks in Recent Fiction from the African Diaspora (Jennifer Wawrzinek).- Chapter 14. Temporality in the Contemporary Global South Novel (Russell West-Pavlov).- Chapter 15. Beyond the Written Word: Graphic Novels in the Twenty-First Century (Lukas Etter and Jan-Noël Thon).- Chapter 16. The Limits of Fictional Ontologies in Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (Roger Lüdeke).- Chapter 17. The End of the Novel (Pieter Vermeulen).