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04076aam a2200469 a 4500 001 F1DC0880EFE011E08369D5DE6AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20111006010153 008 110118s2011 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2011002470 020 $a 1107006775 (hardback) 020 $a 9781107006775 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)698331463 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d ERASA $d NLGGC $d CDX $d BWX $d IUL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR881 $b .S785 2011 082 00 $a 823/.91409 $2 22 084 $a LIT004120 $2 bisacsh 084 $a 18.05 $2 bcl 100 1 $a Su, John J. 245 1 $a Imagination and the contemporary novel / $c John J. Su. 260 $a Cambridge, UK ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2011. 300 $a x, 219 p. ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-213) and index. 505 0 $a 1. Introduction: globalization, imagination, and the novel -- 2. Aesthetic revolutions: white South African writing and the state of emergency -- 3. The pastoral and the postmodern -- 4. Hybridity, enterprise culture, and the fiction of multicultural Britain -- 5. Ghosts of essentialism: racial memory as epistemological claim -- 6. Amitav Ghosh and the aesthetic turn in postcolonial studies -- Conclusion: imagining together?. 520 $a "Imagination and the Contemporary Novel examines the global preoccupation with the imagination among literary authors with ties to former colonies of the British Empire since the 1960s. John Su draws on a wide range of authors including Peter Ackroyd, Monica Ali, Julian Barnes, Andre; Brink, J. M. Coetzee, John Fowles, Amitav Ghosh, Nadine Gordimer, Hanif Kureishi, Salman Rushdie and Zadie Smith. This study rehabilitates the category of imagination in order to understand a broad range of contemporary Anglophone literature. The responses of such literature to shifts in global capitalism have often been misunderstood by the dominant categories of literary studies, the postmodern and the postcolonial. As both an insightful critique into the themes that drive a range of today's best novelists and a bold restatement of what the imagination is and what it means for contemporary culture, this book breaks new ground in the study of twenty-first-century literature"-- Provided by publisher. 520 $a "Imagination and the Contemporary Novel examines the global preoccupation with the imagination among literary authors with ties to former colonies of the British Empire since the 1960s. John Su draws on a wide range of authors including Peter Ackroyd, Monica Ali, Julian Barnes, Andr ÌBrink, J. M. Coetzee, John Fowles, Amitav Ghosh, Nadine Gordimer, Hanif Kureishi, Salman Rushdie and Zadie Smith. This study rehabilitates the category of imagination in order to understand a broad range of contemporary Anglophone literature. The responses of such literature to shifts in global capitalism have often been misunderstood by the dominant categories of literary studies, the postmodern and the postcolonial. As both an insightful critique into the themes that drive a range of today's best novelists and a bold restatement of what the imagination is and what it means for contemporary culture, this book breaks new ground in the study of twenty-first-century literature"-- Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Imagination in literature. 650 0 $a Literature and globalization. 650 0 $a Postcolonialism in literature. 650 0 $a English fiction $z English-speaking countries $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh $2 bisacsh 650 17 $a Romans $2 gtt 650 17 $a Engels $2 gtt 650 17 $a Internationalisatie $2 gtt 650 17 $a Postkolonialisme $2 gtt 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171227052520.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160825093529.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F1DC0880EFE011E08369D5DE6AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search