New Approaches to the Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Novel

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Baumbach, Sibylle (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Neumann, Birgit (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Literature-Philosophy.; British literature.; America-Literatures.; Contemporary Literature.; Literary Theory.; British and Irish Literature.; North American Literature.

This book discusses the complex ways in which the novel offers a vibrant arena for critically engaging with our contemporary world and scrutinises the genre's political, ethical, and aesthetic value. Far-reaching cultural, political, and technological changes during the past two decades have cr...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. The Novel - An Undead Genre (Sibylle Baumbach and Birgit Neumann)
• Chapter 2. Human Rights and Transnational Justice in the Contemporary Anglophone Novel: J.M. Coetzee's Disgraceand Achmat Dangor's Bitter Fruit (Sangina Patnaik)
• Chapter 3. The Economy of Attention and the Novel (Sibylle Baumbach)
• Chapter 4. Twenty-First-Century Fictional Experiments with Emotion and Cognition (Suzanne Keen)
• Chapter 5. 'Reality Hunger,' Documentarism, and Fragmentation in Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Novels (Alexander Scherr and Ansgar Nünning)
• Chapter 6. Cli-Fi: Environmental Literature for the Anthropocene (Laura Wright)
• Chapter 7. The Animal Novel That Therefore This is Not? (Kari Weil)
• Chapter 8. We Have Always Already Been Becoming Posthuman? Posthumanism in Theory and (Reading) Practice (Roman Bartosch)
• Chapter 9. What is 'the' Neoliberal Novel? Neoliberalism, Finance, and Biopolitics (Arne De Boever)
• Chapter 10. The Novel after 9/11: From Ground Zero to the "War on Terror" (Michael C. Frank)
• Chapter 11. Post-National Futures in Nationalist Contexts? Reading 'British' Fictions of Artificial Intelligence (Will Slocombe)
• Chapter 12. Anglophone World Literature and Glocal Memories: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun and Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss (Birgit Neumann)
• Chapter 13. Afropolitanism and the Novel: Mapping Material Networks in Recent Fiction from the African Diaspora (Jennifer Wawrzinek)
• Chapter 14. Temporality in the Contemporary Global South Novel (Russell West-Pavlov)
• Chapter 15. Beyond the Written Word: Graphic Novels in the Twenty-First Century (Lukas Etter and Jan-Noël Thon)
• Chapter 16. The Limits of Fictional Ontologies in Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (Roger Lüdeke)
• Chapter 17. The End of the Novel (Pieter Vermeulen).