Swallowing a World - Globalization and the Maximalist Novel

Swallowing a World analyzes a series of massive and meandering late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century texts that represent, formally reproduce, and ultimately invite reflection upon the effects of globalization to show that contemporary maximalism is an aesthetic response to globalization and a global phenomenon in its own right.
 

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mapping the Maximalist Novel
1. See the Whole World, Come See Everything! Midnight’s Children and the Postcolonial Culture Industry
2. Certainty in Its Purest Form: Globalization, Fundamentalism, and Narrative in White Teeth
3. It Shouldn’t Produce No Pretty Sentence, Ever: Violence and Aesthetics in A Brief History of Seven Killings
4. The Pursuit of Knowledge: The Paradoxes of Postcolonial Encyclopedism in In the Light of What We Know
5. Two Dumb Inertias: The Uneven Drift of Globalization in The Old Drift
Conclusion: The Future of Maximalist Fiction
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Benjamin Bergholtz is an assistant professor of English at Louisiana Tech University.
 

Summary

Swallowing a World analyzes a series of massive and meandering late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century texts that represent, formally reproduce, and ultimately invite reflection upon the effects of globalization to show that contemporary maximalism is an aesthetic response to globalization and a global phenomenon in its own right.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Bergholtz
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2024
• EAN: 9781496231284
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-3128-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Frontiers of Narrative
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories