Introduction: The Globalization of Fiction/the Fiction of Globalization

O'Brien, Susie; Szemán, Imre

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“…From a technical standpoint, this shrinking and hyperconnectivity drive novelists to represent "temporal simultaneity" and multiple geographies (Barnard "Fictions" 207) and temporal networked structures (Edwards 16), as well as to employ more fitting narrative plot strategies, such as Hoyos' "emplotment of globalization" (2) and the multi-strand plot that Beecroft ("Tropes") distinguishes as "the plot of globalization," experimented in novels such as David Mitchell's Ghostwritten (1999) and films like Alejandro González Iñárritu's Amores Perros (2001) andBabel (2006). 11 Global violence is another distinguishable concern in the debates around the new genre.…”

Section: A Critical Unfolding Of the Global Novelmentioning

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The Novel after the Global Turn: Decentered Perspectives from the Spanish Literary Field

Cerdà¹,

Oliva²

2021

Studies in the Novel

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This essay addresses current debates on the global novel through the analysis of two contrasting yet comparable case studies: J. M. Coetzee's "Jesus" trilogy-The Childhood of Jesus (2013),The Schooldays of Jesus (2016), and The Death of Jesus (2019)-and the significantly less well-known novel Sudd (2007), by the Spanish novelist and travel writer Gabi Martínez.Mobilizing a growing body of criticism, we identify a key constellation of social, political, affective, and ethical concerns that are increasingly present in recent theories of the novelsuch as global interconnectedness and violence, cosmopolitanism, a new order of affects, humanitarianism, translatability, and planetarity-and discuss them through our two case studies. Working from different narrative aesthetics and unequal positions in the literary system, Coetzee and Martínez thwart exclusive adherence to normative or pragmatic approaches to the global novel, evincing the unevenness of international circulation and academic institutionalization against the backdrop of global Anglophone literature.

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Section: A Critical Unfolding Of the Global Novelmentioning

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The Novel after the Global Turn: Decentered Perspectives from the Spanish Literary Field

Cerdà¹,

Oliva²

2021

Studies in the Novel

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“…In fact Biju (like his father) had fabricated his own version of the "American Dream," taking care not to reveal to his family the risks he incurred to survive as an illegal immigrant in the USA. He lived in abject poverty, comparable to that of the indigent lepchas and bhutias of his home town Kalimpong, and the version that he filtered to his father was in fact, another "fiction of globalization" (O'Brien & Szeman 2001). If the cook took pride in his son being in the USA, Biju suffered constant homesickness: "The green card … without it he couldn't leave … this was the absurdity … he thirsted for it -to be able to buy a ticket with the air of someone who could return if he wished" (99).…”

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Narratives of Fracture: Class and Gender in Irish and Indian Postcolonial Domestic Fiction

Chatterjee¹

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The world system, core-periphery, and combined and uneven development-all concepts originating in sociology and economic history have enjoyed a fresh resurgence in literary studies (Moretti 2001, Casanova 2007, Deckard et al 2015). This dissertation studies the novel as a "global form," and explores its conceptual engagement with, as well its inflection by, the changing core-periphery relationship in a globalizing world. I focus on five Irish and Indian women novelists, Elizabeth Bowen, Molly Keane, Jennifer Johnston, Mahasweta Devi and Kiran Desai. Arguably, India and Ireland occupy anomalous and analogous positions in the literary world-system. As a growing cultural-economic power, India is often considered, unfairly according to some critics, to be the representative example of the postcolonial world; such a characterization often obscures the particular and diverse histories of countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. On the other hand, despite being a part of Great Britain and Europe, Ireland is often situated, controversially, as a postcolony within the "West," on account of its long colonial occupation by the English. By employing a comparative, world-systemic approach between Indian and Irish fiction, I seek to destabilize the West/non-West binary and instead emphasize the shifting relationships between the core and the peripheries shaped by nonmonolithic, distinct kinds of colonialism. Fiction plays a significant part in registering as well as shaping the experience of uneven, postcolonial and peripheral modernity. Specifically, I argue in my dissertation that women's "domestic" fiction, far from being an apolitical, "private" corpus as they are often carelessly labeled, plays a significant role in the literary articulation of postcolonial and peripheral unevenness. The focus on the family in these fictional texts serves to illuminate the interplay between and imbrication of the domestic, the familial and the private with the (gendered) national and the transnational. The authors in this dissertation deserve attention, especially, because through such "domestic" and "private" topics as marriage, comingof-age, sibling relationships and family history, they are able to uniquely elucidate the lived experience of peripheral modernity. Each of the chapters offers a reading of some aspect of the domestic, the familial and the private realms; these women novelists provide a global, and not simply metropolitan, account of domestic fiction, not only in terms of content, but also through formal innovations in their chosen genres of fiction.

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Introduction: Global, Postcolonial, and World Literatures

Loughry

2020

The Global Novel and Capitalism in Crisis

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Introduction: The Globalization of Fiction/the Fiction of Globalization

Cited by 41 publications

References 18 publications

The Novel after the Global Turn: Decentered Perspectives from the Spanish Literary Field

The Novel after the Global Turn: Decentered Perspectives from the Spanish Literary Field

Narratives of Fracture: Class and Gender in Irish and Indian Postcolonial Domestic Fiction

Introduction: Global, Postcolonial, and World Literatures

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