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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 67–89.
Published: 01 May 2014
... to appreciate the changed contexts within which Egyptian literature operates in the twenty-first century. © 2014 by Novel, Inc. 2014 Duke University Press Works Cited Al Ahram . “Yutlaqu mawludatihi 'ism ‘Facebook”’ (“Man Names His Newborn Girl ‘Facebook”’) . 18 February 2011 < http...
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 367–388.
Published: 01 November 2023
... timely by growing dissatisfaction with a post‐providential, disenchanted view of the world as devoid of meaning, is invited by and in turn illuminates one of the most celebrated novels of the twentyfirst century, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (2005). The narrator‐protagonist of this novel, I argue...
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 190–207.
Published: 01 August 2015
... of the twentieth century, Ein weites Feld should be promoted as a key text for our understanding of the twenty-first and as an example of how the novel as a form still has a role in public political debates. Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Günter Grass Ein weites Feld Cold War Germany...
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Novel (2024) 57 (3): 313–334.
Published: 01 November 2024
... traditions of self‐conscious narration within the context of twentyfirstcentury social and technological mediation. At a time when digital media compels written literature to take stock of its print lineage, this article argues that narrative reflexivity is accompanied by a reflexive materiality...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 494–498.
Published: 01 November 2021
... to French universalism. This feeling of vulnerability is one that afflicts many white Frenchmen today, whose anxieties resonate with those expressed by nineteenth-century forebears such as Léon Bloy and Émile Zola. But what distinguishes twenty-first-century literature from, say, Zola's degeneration...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 383–398.
Published: 01 November 2020
... . Brooklyn : Akashic , 2014 . Pressman Jessica . “ The Aesthetic of Bookishness in Twenty-First Century Literature .” Michigan Quarterly Review 48 . 4 ( 2009 ): 465 – 82 . Readings Bill . Introducing Lyotard: Art and Politics . London : Routledge , 1990 . Saggini Francesca...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 278–294.
Published: 01 August 2016
... : Princeton UP , 2003 . Postcolonial literature realism twenty-first-century literature Shortly after the publication of her Booker Prize–winning novel, The God of Small Things , in 1997, Indian author Arundhati Roy gave up on fiction altogether. Unsettled by the “global dazzle” that greeted...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 338–350.
Published: 01 November 2017
... the production and circulation of twenty-first-century literature to be “ structurally so unlike ” that of the epoch in which the modern literary institution was formed as to “require completely different theoretical approaches” ( 135 ). Despite his call for a world literary system that breaks away from...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 19–42.
Published: 01 May 2021
... – 57 . Castro Urioste José . “Mario Vargas Llosa’s El hablador as a Discourse of Conquest .” Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature 24 . 2 ( 2000 ): 241 – 55 . Cortázar Julio . “ Tres cartas a Vargas Llosa .” Letras Libres , 31 Oct . 2007 . Díez...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 406–426.
Published: 01 November 2022
... struggle against systems of data capture and control. Both novels suggest that the ubiquity of computational systems has generated new problems for the form and function of literary thinking in the twentyfirst century. The first problem is both practical and aesthetic: how to narrate or describe a world...
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Novel (2024) 57 (3): 431–436.
Published: 01 November 2024
... treatment of world literature remain almost exclusively focused on novels published in the twenty-first century? Moments of Capital is making a periodizing argument, it seems, without consciously doing so. Is the contemporary novel more aware, somehow, of its integration within the capitalist world system...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 131–135.
Published: 01 May 2015
... argument, I must insist on a more positive acknowledgment of the influence of postmodernism on twenty-first-century fiction. Works Cited Cheah Pheng . “ What Is a World? On World Literature as World-Making Activity .” Daedalus 137 : 3 ( 2008 ): 26 – 38 . Eagleton Terry...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 444–460.
Published: 01 November 2021
... authors have described their works as attempts to render twenty-first-century modernity's accelerated temporality in novelistic form. Matthias Nilges, on the other hand, has objected that the contemporary experience of “immediacy” is produced by neoliberalism ( 362 ), so novels that “simply replicate...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 288–290.
Published: 01 August 2017
... of California P , 1994 . Tagore Rabindranath . “ Visva Sahitya .” Rabindranath Tagore in the Twenty-First Century: Theoretical Renewals . Ed. Banerji Debashish . Trans. Das Rijula and Paranjpe Makarand R. . New Delhi : Springer , 2014 . 277 – 88 . ...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 329–337.
Published: 01 November 2017
... or domination. On the other hand, the good of a postcolonial perspective for criticism comes from its being fully as international as world literature while maintaining focus on important political and cultural conflicts. Twenty-first-century world literature discourses became possible, I think, because...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 278–283.
Published: 01 August 2009
..., and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century . Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007 . D(NA) Coding the Ethnic: Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex Patricia E. Chu My essay is drawn from a longer project on the biopolitics of the ethnic novel. In writing about the twenty-first...
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 491–494.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and the sheer amount of research that the book undertakes across different fields—is her use of time-saving appliances to focus our attention on questions of gender, race, and class in twentieth- and twenty-first century American culture. Racism, classism, and misogyny, occluded by the claimed democratic...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 183–201.
Published: 01 August 2016
... ): 521 – 41 . Piketty Thomas . Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century . Cambridge : Belknap , 2014 . Rushing Robert A. “ Otherworlding Realisms .” Weblog posting. Kritik 17 Feb. 2014 < http://unitcrit.blogspot.com/2014/02/worlding-realisms-closing-roundtable_5492.html...
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Novel (2024) 57 (2): 273–277.
Published: 01 August 2024
... to two developments taking place in the United States in the second decade of the twenty-first century, one in society and politics and the other in the narrower field of academic literary studies. The first is the full-fledged emergence of the alt-right as a political force that can no longer be ignored...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 365–374.
Published: 01 November 2017
... contemporary American fiction racial metaphors racial mimesis racial representation John Edgar Wideman's novel Fanon , published in 2008, explicitly takes up the question of whether influential twentieth-century modes of race critique still apply at the turn of the twenty-first century, when...