... 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...

... 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 twenty‐first century, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (2005). The narrator‐protagonist of this novel, I argue...

... 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...

... 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...

... . 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...

... Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2003 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Postcolonial literature realism twenty-first-century literature Shortly after the publication of her Booker Prize–winning novel, The God of Small...

... to agree that we need such a theory when he finds 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...

... – 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...

... 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 twenty‐first century. The first problem is both practical and aesthetic: how to narrate or describe a world...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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 . ...

... 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...

..., 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...

... generation of artists, historians, and literary scholars has seemed to anticipate Thomas Piketty in affirming the realist novel as an indispensable feature in the ongoing story he tells in Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century ( 2014 ). The sociologist Giovanni Arrighi has provided a compelling frame...

... “standards that are great” (1). Trump's speech foregrounds the key issue the book investigates: the relevance and persistence of “all-electric” appliances in the American cultural and political imaginary in the twentieth and twenty-first century. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the automated...

... 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...

... and twenty-first centuries. The historical and cultural conditions of Russia in the 1860s were deeply different from those in France in the 1880s; therefore, the speculative turn in the field of realist writing did not manifest itself there as a reaction against a positivistic mind-set—which could...

... Geography of Contemporary Fiction opens with a signature deconstructive move. Setting out the operating concept of the book, Hart reminds us that the “global” is only “global” by simultaneously remaining national, albeit in a curious way: “The putatively global culture of the twenty-first century occupies...

...Chris Holmes Abstract The early twenty-first century has seen a radical shift in how the aesthetic form of the novel addresses the abstraction of labor and the precarity of minority communities that have come to epitomize neoliberal capital. Novels increasingly attempt to formulate institutions...