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  title info:
    title: Infrastructures of crisis in global twenty-first-century literature
  name:
    name part: Neave, Lucy
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: stk
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 199 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Discourse about crisis is pervasive in the mass media and scholarship, and in discussions about the discipline of literary studies. Contemporary narratives about crisis concern systems and infrastructures on which societies rely. This book critically engages with crises as events of excess which surpass containment efforts by governments and institutions, as occurrences that generate conflicting discourses, meanings and political responses and as entangled with visible and underlying structures. Infrastructures of Crisis concentrates on the evocation of infrastructure in literary and filmic texts about real-world events, such as nuclear accidents, the 'refugee crisis,' pandemics and climate change and works across scholarly conversations to examine how a range of cataclysms is figured, as well as how cultural products dramatise infrastructures' entanglements with neoliberalism and colonialism.
  table of contents: Introduction : Real-world catastrophes in global twenty-first-century literature : discourse, infrastructure and affect -- Crisis as infrastructure : Chernobyl Prayer (1997) and Chernobyl (2019) -- Crisis as figure : Behrouz Boochani's No Friend But the Mountains (2018) and Mohsin Hamid's Exit West (2017) -- Crisis as contagion : Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven (2014), Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet (2020), and Ali Smith's Summer (2020) and Companion Piece (2022) -- Crisis as metonym : Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart : The Heirship Chronicles (1990) and Alexis Wright's The Swan Book (2013) -- Conclusion : Crisis, critique and infrastructure in literary studies.
  note: Lucy Neave.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-192) and index
  subject:
    topic: Crises in literature
  classification: PN56.C726 N43 2025
  classification: 809/.933556
  identifier: 9781399539531
  identifier: 1399539531
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