The politics of literature in a divided 21st century
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The politics of literature in a divided 21st century
（Routledge studies in contemporary literature）
Routledge, 2021
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
How does literature matter politically in the 21st century? This book offers an ecocritical framework for exploring the significance of literature today. Featuring a diverse body of texts and authors, it develops a future-oriented politics embedded in those transgressive realities which our political system finds impossible to tame. This book re-imagines political agency, voices, bodies and borders as transformative processes rather than rigid realities, articulating a 'dia-topian' literary politics. Taking a contextual approach, it addresses such urgent global issues as biopolitics, migration and borders, populism, climate change, and terrorism. These readings revitalize fictional worlds for political enquiry, demonstrating how imaginative literature seeds change in a world of closed-off horizons. Prior to the pragmatics of power-play, literary language breathes new energy into the frames of our thought and the shapes of our affects. This book shows how relation, metamorphosis and enmeshment can become salient in a politics beyond the conflict line.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Towards a Diatopian Politics of Literature
Unmappable Gestures: Politics of Literature in the Age of Donald Trump
Uncontainable Bodies: Posthuman Biopolitics
Transversing the Event: Beyond the Trauma of Terrorism
Emergence, Submergence, Insurgence: Politics on Liquid Ground
Unravelling the Nation State: Openwork Lives in Migrant Graphic Narratives
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