Format:
Book
Author:
Marx, John.
Title:
Geopolitics and the Anglophone novel, 1890-2011 / John Marx.
Publisher, Date:
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Description:
viii, 246 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"Literary fiction is a powerful cultural tool for criticizing governments and for imagining how better governance and better states would work. Combining political theory with strong readings of a vast range of novels, John Marx shows that fiction over the long twentieth century has often envisioned good government not in Utopian but in pragmatic terms. Early-twentieth-century novels by Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster and Rabindrananth Tagore helped forecast world government after European imperialism. Twenty-first-century novelists such as Monica Ali, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Michael Ondaatje and Amitav Ghosh have inherited that legacy and continue to criticize existing policies in order to formulate best practices on a global scale. Marx shows how literature can make an important contribution to political and social sciences by creating a space to imagine and experiment with social organization"-- Provided by publisher.
"Geopolitics and the Anglophone Novel, 1890-2011 Literary fiction is a powerful cultural tool for criticizing governments and for imagining how better governance and better states would work. Combining political theory with strong readings of a vast range of novels, John Marx shows that fiction over the long twentieth century has often envisioned good government not in utopian but in pragmatic terms. Early-twentieth-century novels by Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, and Rabindrananth Tagore helped forecast world government after European imperialism. Twenty-first-century novelists such as Monica Ali, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Michael Ondaatje, and Amitav Ghosh have inherited that legacy and continue to criticize existing policies in order to formulate best practices on a global scale. "-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
1900 - 2099
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Geopolitics in literature.
Politics and literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Fiction.
Geopolitics.
Literature.
Politics and literature.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-242) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: the novel's administrative turn -- 1. Fiction after liberalism -- 2. How literature administers 'failed' states -- 3. The novelistic management of inequality in the age of meritocracy -- 4. Entrepreneurship and imperial politics in twentieth-century historical fiction -- 5. Women as economic actors in contemporary and modernist novels -- Postscript: the literary politics of being well attached.
Web Site:
LCCN:
2012013326
ISBN:
9781107020313
110702031X
Other Number:
756167360
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
1
Control Number:
1087078
Call Number:
809.93358 M392
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
1
# System items in:
1