Swallowing a world : globalization and the maximalist novel /
"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 selec...
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | Frontiers of narrative.
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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.