... Richard Brodhead speaks at the memorial service for the poet, novelist, essayist, and memoirist Reynolds Price, who was the James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Reynolds Price memorial service A Whole New Life 2011 ...

... In this chapter the author describes the process of writing his novel Home Products (which was later published in the United States under the title Nobody Does the Right Thing). The piece considers common issues of concern to first-time novelists: how to start, voice, structure, and revision...

... engages with novelist Vikram Chandra’s widely-noted essay “The Cult of Authenticity.” Aravinda Adiga Indra Sinha Mohammad Hanif news and the novel authenticity ...

... The wars of our time saturate our everyday visual fields in unprecedented ways. This chapter traces the conjoining of human rights, technology, and media activism in confronting the ubiquity of contemporary wars and argues for their impact on the novelistic imagination. It also excavates...

... What happens to the postcolonial novelistic imaginary after 1989? What transformed Salman Rushdie from an exemplary author of the postcolonial novel to a vulnerable figure after 1989? These are some of the questions this chapter explores. Rushdie’s graphing of the necropolitical face of global...

...War The wars of our time saturate our everyday visual fields in unprecedented ways. This chapter traces the conjoining of human rights, technology, and media activism in confronting the ubiquity of contemporary wars and argues for their impact on the novelistic imagination. It also excavates...

... The introductory chapter lays out the main conceptual principles of the book—namely, the structural connection it traces between queerness (as utopian potential) and diasporic aesthetics and subjective relations. The chapter closes with a discussion of the Jamaican novelist Erna Brodber and her...

... Chapter 4 reads interlocking essays and fiction by the African American poet, critic, and novelist Nathaniel Mackey alongside the signal work of the reggae musician Burning Spear, the album Marcus Garvey. Mackey’s and Burning Spear’s contributions to the book’s propositions of queer diasporic...

... The chapter is made up of the afterword to the Italian edition of The Black Jacobins (December 2005). It is translated and published here in English for the first time. Written by the respected novelist of the Haitian Revolution Madison Smartt Bell, the chapter describes the writer’s encounter...

... In a close reading of David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten that uses Benedict Anderson’s formal categories, this chapter examines what happens to the novel form when the novelistic imagination goes global and acquires a networked orientation, when it is no longer analogous to imagining a nation...

... Nayantara Sahgal, pioneering novelist and member of India’s most prominent political family, the Nehrus, published her autobiography in two volumes by the time she was thirty-five. This chapter explores the continuities and discontinuities in her life as presented in the two volumes and suggests...