Imagination and the contemporary novel

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Label

Imagination and the contemporary novel

Statement of responsibility

John J. Su

Creator

• Su, John J

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Engels
• English fiction
• English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
• English fiction -- English-speaking countries -- History and criticism
• English-speaking countries
• Imagination in literature
• Imagination in literature
• 1900-2099
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• Literature and globalization
• Literature and globalization
• Postcolonialism in literature
• Postcolonialism in literature
• Postkolonialisme
• Romans
• Internationalisatie

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"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"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

823/.91409

Index

index present

LC call number

PR881

LC item number

.S785 2011eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography