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World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: New Comparisons in World Literature
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Drawing on a Marxist concept of world literature, this book is a
study of the manipulations of time in contemporary anglophone
fiction from Africa and South Asia. Through critical work and
literary reading, this research explores the times other than the
present that seem to haunt an era of capitalist globalisation:
nostalgic feelings about bygone ideals of identity and community,
appeals to Golden Ages, returns of the repressed and anxious
anticipations of global extinction and catastrophe. The term
non-synchronism explored in this book captures these dislocations
of the present, while offering a critical lens to grasp the
politics of time of an era marked by the continuing expansion of
capitalist modernity. Most importantly, non-synchronism is a
dialectical paradigm charged with antagonistic political valences.
The literary analysis presented in the volume hence connects the
literary manipulation of time to discourses on extinction,
accumulation, nostalgia, modernity and survival in global politics
and literature.
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