This book examines how contemporary global novels by Salman Rushdie, David Mitchell, Rana Dasgupta and Rachel Kushner have evolved new aesthetics to represent global economic and ecological crises.
Dr Treasa De Loughry is Lecturer/ Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow in World Literature in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin, Ireland.
Innehållsförteckning
1. Chapter 1 Introduction: Global, Postcolonial, and World Literatures.- 2. Chapter 2 Global Literature, Realism, and the World-System in Crisis.- 3. Chapter 3 ‘Worlds in Collision’: Salman Rushdie, Globalisation, and Postcoloniality-in-Crisis.- 4. Chapter 4 ‘Prophet Malthus Surveyed a Dustbowl’: David Mitchell, Neo-Malthusianism and the World-Ecology in Crisis.- 5. Chapter 5 Aesthetic Attitudes to Globalisation: Rana Dasgupta, Capitalism-in-Crisis, and Narrating the World.- 6. Chapter 6 ‘FAC UT ARDEAT’: Rachel Kushner, the World-Historical Novel, and Energetic Materialism.- 7. Chapter 7 Conclusion: Towards A Literary Internationale.