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"Imagination and the Contemporary Novel examines the global preoccupation with the imagination among literary authors with ties to former colonies of the British Empire since the 1960s. John Su draws on a wide range of authors including Peter Ackroyd, Monica Ali, Julian Barnes, Andre; Brink, J. M. Coetzee, John Fowles, Amitav Ghosh, Nadine Gordimer, Hanif Kureishi, Salman Rushdie and Zadie Smith. This study rehabilitates the category of imagination in order to understand a broad range of contemporary Anglophone literature. The responses of such literature to shifts in global capitalism have often been misunderstood by the dominant categories of literary studies, the postmodern and the postcolonial. As both an insightful critique into the themes that drive a range of today's best novelists and a bold restatement of what the imagination is and what it means for contemporary culture, this book breaks new ground in the study of twenty-first-century literature"--
"Imagination and the Contemporary Novel examines the global preoccupation with the imagination among literary authors with ties to former colonies of the British Empire since the 1960s. John Su draws on a wide range of authors including Peter Ackroyd, Monica Ali, Julian Barnes, Andr 虒Brink, J. M. Coetzee, John Fowles, Amitav Ghosh, Nadine Gordimer, Hanif Kureishi, Salman Rushdie and Zadie Smith. This study rehabilitates the category of imagination in order to understand a broad range of contemporary Anglophone literature. The responses of such literature to shifts in global capitalism have often been misunderstood by the dominant categories of literary studies, the postmodern and the postcolonial. As both an insightful critique into the themes that drive a range of today's best novelists and a bold restatement of what the imagination is and what it means for contemporary culture, this book breaks new ground in the study of twenty-first-century literature"--
目录
Cover 1
Half-title 3
Title 5
Copyright 6
Contents 7
Preface and acknowledgments 9
CHAPTER 1 Introduction: globalization, imagination, and the novel 13
The epistemology of the imagination 15
Aesthetics and utopia 24
The imagination and the novel 26
CHAPTER 2 Aesthetic revolutions: white South African writing and the State of Emergency 32
Andr茅 Brink: imagining the real 34
Nadine Gordimer: imagined revolutions 45
J. M. Coetzee: the sympathetic imagination 54
CHAPTER 3 The pastoral and the postmodern 67
John Fowles: realism in a late capitalist world 69
Peter Ackroyd: latent histories of the pastoral 77
Julian Barnes: pastoral histories 86
CHAPTER 4 Hybridity, enterprise culture, and the fiction of multicultural Britain 94
The rise of hybridity 98
Rushdie\u2019s return to roots 104
Performing identity in Kureishi 110
The ends of hybridity 113
CHAPTER 5 Ghosts of essentialism: racial memory as epistemological claim 119
Racial memory as knowledge claim 122
Essential knowledge 126
The burden of the blood 134
CHAPTER 6 Amitav Ghosh and the aesthetic turn in postcolonial studies 138
Aesthetics spaces and identification 141
Utopias positive and negative 147
The horizon of collective imagination 152
The ends of the aesthetic 161
Conclusion: imagining together? 165
Notes 169
Preface and acknowledgments 169
1 Introduction: globalization, imagination, and the novel 170
2 Aesthetic revolutions: white South African writing and the State of Emergency 174
3 The pastoral and the postmodern 182
4 Hybridity, enterprise culture, and the fiction of multicultural Britain 189
5 Ghosts of essentialism: racial memory as epistemological claim 195
6 Amitav Ghosh and the aesthetic turn in postcolonial studies 199
Conclusion: imagining together? 208
Bibliography 210
Index 226
Half-title 3
Title 5
Copyright 6
Contents 7
Preface and acknowledgments 9
CHAPTER 1 Introduction: globalization, imagination, and the novel 13
The epistemology of the imagination 15
Aesthetics and utopia 24
The imagination and the novel 26
CHAPTER 2 Aesthetic revolutions: white South African writing and the State of Emergency 32
Andr茅 Brink: imagining the real 34
Nadine Gordimer: imagined revolutions 45
J. M. Coetzee: the sympathetic imagination 54
CHAPTER 3 The pastoral and the postmodern 67
John Fowles: realism in a late capitalist world 69
Peter Ackroyd: latent histories of the pastoral 77
Julian Barnes: pastoral histories 86
CHAPTER 4 Hybridity, enterprise culture, and the fiction of multicultural Britain 94
The rise of hybridity 98
Rushdie\u2019s return to roots 104
Performing identity in Kureishi 110
The ends of hybridity 113
CHAPTER 5 Ghosts of essentialism: racial memory as epistemological claim 119
Racial memory as knowledge claim 122
Essential knowledge 126
The burden of the blood 134
CHAPTER 6 Amitav Ghosh and the aesthetic turn in postcolonial studies 138
Aesthetics spaces and identification 141
Utopias positive and negative 147
The horizon of collective imagination 152
The ends of the aesthetic 161
Conclusion: imagining together? 165
Notes 169
Preface and acknowledgments 169
1 Introduction: globalization, imagination, and the novel 170
2 Aesthetic revolutions: white South African writing and the State of Emergency 174
3 The pastoral and the postmodern 182
4 Hybridity, enterprise culture, and the fiction of multicultural Britain 189
5 Ghosts of essentialism: racial memory as epistemological claim 195
6 Amitav Ghosh and the aesthetic turn in postcolonial studies 199
Conclusion: imagining together? 208
Bibliography 210
Index 226
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