Infrastructures of crisis in global twenty-first-century literature /
"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 whi...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2025]
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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.