Toward the Geopolitical Novel: U.S. Fiction in the Twenty-First Century (Literature Now)
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (874 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0231164416 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Caren Irr provokes fresh discussions about the critical and cultural horizons of the novel since 2000, enabling us to chart how historical fiction has developed formally after postmodernism. (Choice)Combining theory, socio-institutional analysis, and the sheer magnitude of a survey, she maks a convincing case that U.S. American Book Review)Richly informative and nuanced. Highly recommended. (Gordon Hutner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)No comparable volume exists. (Daniel Mattingly Journal of American Studies) . (Sean McCann, author of Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism)Toward the Geopolitical Novel is lucidly concei
"An Excellent Tool for Teaching 21st Century American Literatures" according to Luana Uluave. This is a useful read. I taught sections of it along with The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Mohsin Hamid) in an advanced high school literature class with great success. It is too advanced to be assigned whole in high school, but I wouldn't hesitate to use it in an upper-level college class.
Caren Irr is professor of English at Brandeis University and author of Pink Pirates: Contemporary American Women Writers and Copyright.
She explores the writings of Chris Abani, Susan Choi, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Díaz, Dave Eggers, Jeffrey Eugenides, Aleksandar Hemon, Hari Kunzru, Dinaw Mengestu, Norman Rush, Gary Shteyngart, and others as they rethink stories of migration, the Peace Corps, nationalism and neoliberalism, revolution, and the expatriate experience. Taken together, these innovations define a new literary form: the geopolitical novel. Caren Irr's survey of more than 125 novels outlines the dramatic resurgence of the American political novel in the twenty-first century. More cosmopolitan and socially critical than domestic realism, the geopolitical novel provides new ways of understanding crucial political concepts to meet the needs of a new century.