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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 347–368.
Published: 01 November 2019
... opposition between nationalism and pan-Africanism. In post-Mao China, Chinese writers released the local from the grip of the state and aligned localism with a nascent cosmopolitanism, which inclined them to identify with Third World cosmopolitan writers. In the process of translating post-Mao Chinese...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 400–409.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Rosemary Marangoly George This essay argues that tracking Kamala Markandaya's literary career enables us to see, in retrospect, some of the blind spots of the postcolonial literary critical frame within which we have situated novels produced by third-world writers in the twentieth century...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 278–294.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Ulka Anjaria This essay describes a trend in contemporary Third World writing characterized by a “realist impulse.” The realist impulse is a transition in representational mode, style, and/or medium that entails a new textual engagement with the contemporary world, evident in gestures...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 36–59.
Published: 01 May 2018
... that the once peripheral literature and cinema that conformed to Fredric Jameson's definition of Third World national allegories can now be read as symptoms of First World cultural production. This historical and aesthetic shift has made itself felt at the heart of Israeli daily life in the rearticulation...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 190–195.
Published: 01 August 2009
... traction, arguments such as Fredric Jameson's about the third-world novel must consider the novel more concretely in relation to literacy and publication structures. Franco Moretti's collaborative Il romanzo begins to organize an apparatus of knowledge that might ground new theories in dialogue with media...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 101–116.
Published: 01 May 2018
... Antonio José Ponte, and Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar (1940, trans. 1995), by anthropologist Fernando Ortiz, the essay charts a third approach, transcultural materialism, that reconciles the two tendencies. Works written in this mode deploy narrative and literary language to articulate labor...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 362–373.
Published: 01 August 2018
... 2018 by Novel, Inc. 2018 neoliberalism African American Third World Communism Red Plenty In 2008, British writer Francis Spufford published Red Plenty , a fictionalized account of life in the Soviet Union during the early Khrushchev years. Politically and aesthetically, Spufford's...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 3–5.
Published: 01 May 2011
... category of literature, the latter has also been shown to be a handmaiden of
empire (Edward Said), an instrument for the formulation of nationalist projects
(Doris Sommer), or an allegorical narrative for third-world predicament (Fredric
Jameson). In The World Republic of Letters, Pascale Casanova...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 329–337.
Published: 01 November 2017
... and Death in the American Novel (1960). All four works make powerful formal arguments and also display—impressively and diversely—interrelations between literature and history. Yet today, after the way the world was changing in 1967—the civil rights movement, feminism, Third Worldism—how limited...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 62–84.
Published: 01 May 2023
... . The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing . Princeton, NJ : Princeton UP , 2021 . Jameson Fredric . The Antinomies of Realism . New York : Verso , 2013 . Jameson Fredric . “ Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism...
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 320–341.
Published: 01 November 2008
... of California P, 1979 . Jameson , Fredric . The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1981 . Jameson , Fredric . “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism.” Social Text 15 ( 1986 ): 65 –88. Jameson , Fredric...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 483–486.
Published: 01 November 2013
... as how it feeds the convenient first-world wisdom that
third-world suffering is attributable to political corruption. In a reading of Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun, a novel of the war in Biafra, Marx tries to restore the
dignity and authority of local knowledge even in the midst...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 524–530.
Published: 01 November 2009
... Citizenship in Zimbabwe.” Third World Quarterly 26 ( 2005 ): 369 -82. Crisis States Workshop. “Crisis, Fragile and Failed States; Definitions Used by the CSRC.” Crisis States Development Research Centre Definitions . London: London School of Economics, 2006 . “Failed States Index Scores 2007...
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 244–263.
Published: 01 November 2008
... , Fredric . “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism.” Social Text 15 ( 1986 ): 65 –88. Kilito , Abdelfattah . Les séances: récits et codes culturels chez Hamadhani et Hariri . Paris: Sindbad, 1983 . Khurshi , Umar . Fi ar-Riwaya al-‘Arabiyya [About...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 463–479.
Published: 01 November 2022
...-world literary text, in which, according to Jameson, “the story of the private individual destiny is always an allegory of the embattled situation of the public third-world culture and society” ( 69 ). Jameson's argument has of course been roundly contested, in particular by Aijaz Ahmad , who...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 144–147.
Published: 01 May 2015
... the first and third worlds far different from Summers's, the asymmetry of power relations between the two is not so easily countered by insisting on the utopian potential of reading; it requires a more supple model of mediation between representation and reality. Moreover, since the book makes very large...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 19–37.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of the fifties and sixties articulated capacious frames of human freedom and challenged the Eurocentric logics that underwrote colonial rule ( Wynter, “Unsettling” 262 ). In addition to pursuit of sovereignty, Third World national liberation movements “linked the national struggle to the realization of goals...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 343–357.
Published: 01 August 2016
... social questions afflicting the Third World) and more responsible to the literature itself (by expanding its archive beyond a few textual examples). 2 For our purposes here, it is important to note that central to this Marxist critique of postcolonial studies was the argument that the latter had...
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Novel (2000) 33 (2): 157–174.
Published: 01 August 2000
... . The Dynamics of Cultural Nationalism: The Gaelic Revival and The Creation of the Irish Nation State . London: Allen & Unwin, 1987 . Jameson , Fredric . “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism” Social Text 15 ( 1986 ): 65 –88. Johnson , Samuel . Dictionary...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 150–155.
Published: 01 May 2017
... geopolitical, as the allegorical examples issue from the Third World, while the concrete hail from the First (a difference postcolonial critics have queried), but it is a difference in degree rather than kind: even in the concrete geopolitical aesthetic—the telephone wires of Three Days of the Condor...
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