A cutting-edge contribution to the aesthetic turn in international
relations scholarship, this book exposes the role of poetic
techniques in constituting the reality of international politics.
It has two symmetrical goals: to illuminate the nonempirical
fictions of factual international relations literature, and to
highlight the real factual inspirations and implications of
contemporary international relations fiction. Employing narrative
theory developed by Hayden White, the author examines factual and
fictional accounts of world affairs ranging from the anarchy
narrative, central to mainstream international relations research,
to novels by Don DeLillo and Milan Kundera. Chapters analyzing
factual literature flesh out its unacknowledged inventions, while
those dedicated to fiction explain its political roots and agenda.
Throughout, the distinction between factual and fictional
representations of international relations breaks down.
Social-scientific narratives emerge as exercises in rhetoric: the
art and politics of persuasion through language. Artistic
narratives surface as real pedagogical lessons and exercises in
political activism. The volume challenges the autonomy of academic
international relations as an exclusive purveyor of serious
knowledge about world affairs and calls for active engagement with
literary art. It will be of interest to scholars of International
Relations, Political Theory, Historiography, Cultural Theory, and
Literary Studies and Criticism.
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