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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Swallowing a world
    sub title: globalization and the maximalist novel
  name:
    name part: Bergholtz, Benjamin
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nbu
    date issued: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 233 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "Swallowing a World offers a new theorization of the maximalist novel. Though it's typically cast as a (white, male) genre of U.S. fiction, maximalism, Benjamin Bergholtz argues, is an aesthetic response to globalization and a global phenomenon in its own right. Bergholtz considers a selection of massive and meandering novels that crisscross from London and Lusaka to Kingston, Kabul, and Kashmir and that represent, formally reproduce, and ultimately invite reflection on the effects of globalization. Each chapter takes up a maximalist novel that simultaneously maps and formally mimics a cornerstone of globalization, such as the postcolonial culture industry (Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children), the rebirth of fundamentalism (Zadie Smith's White Teeth), the transnational commodification of violence (Marlon James's A Brief History of Seven Killings), the obstruction of knowledge by narrative (Zia Haider Rahman's In the Light of What We Know), and globalization's gendered, asymmetrical growth (Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift). By reframing analysis of maximalism around globalization, Swallowing a World not only reimagines one of the most perplexing genres of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries but also sheds light on some of the most perplexing political problems of our precarious present. "--
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Mapping the Maximalist Novel -- 1. Midnight's Children and the Postcolonial Cultural Industry -- 2. "Certainty in its Purest Form": Globalization, Fundamentalism, and Narrative in White Teeth -- 3. "It Shouldn't Produce No Pretty Sentence, Ever": Violence and Aesthetics in A Brief History of Seven Killings -- 4. The "Pursuit of Knowledge" and the Paradoxes of Postcolonial Encyclopedism in In the Light of What We Know -- 5. Gender, Empathy, and the Uneven Drift of Globalization in The Old Drift -- Conclusion: "Different Ways of Projecting the World": The Future of Maximalist Fiction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: Benjamin Bergholtz.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Fiction
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Fiction
    temporal: 21st century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Maximalism (Literature)
  subject:
    topic: Literature and globalization
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century
  classification: PN3503 .B435 2024
  classification: 809.3/04
  classification: LIT024050
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Frontiers of narrative
  identifier: 9781496231284
  identifier: 1496231287
  identifier: 9781496241115
  identifier: 9781496241122
  identifier: 2024002427
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240326
    record change date: 20241007170040.6
    record identifier: in00005506578
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng