Literature and the Global Contemporary

The Resource Literature and the Global Contemporary
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Literature and the Global Contemporary
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edited by Sarah Brouillette, Mathias Nilges, Emilio Sauri
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Language
eng
Summary
This book attempts to understand what 'contemporary' has meant, and should mean, for literary studies. The essays in this volume suggest that an attentive reading of recent global literatures challenges the idea that our contemporary moment is best characterized as a timeless, instantaneous 'now'. The contributors to this book argue that global literatures help us to conceive of the contemporary as an always plural, heterogeneous, and contested temporality. Far from suggesting that we replace theories of an omnipresent 'end of history' with a traditional, single, diachronic timeline, this book encourages the development of such a timeline's rigorous inverse: a synchronic, multi-faceted and multi-temporal history of the contemporary in literature, and thus of contemporary global literatures. It opens up the concept of the contemporary for comparative study by unlocking its temporal, logical, political, and ultimately aesthetic and literary complexity
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AU@
Dewey number
809
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no index present
LC call number
PN851-884
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Series statement
New Comparisons in World Literature

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Context of Literature and the Global Contemporary

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