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Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction (Hardcover, New)
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Community in Twentieth Century Fiction is the first systematic
study on the role that modern and contemporary fiction has played
in the imaginary construction and deconstruction of human
communities. Drawing on recent theoretical debate on the notion of
community (Nancy, Blanchot, Badiou, Esposito), the essays in this
collection examine narratives by Joyce, Waugh, Greene, LaGuma,
Mansfield, Davies, O'Brien, Naipaul, DeLillo, Coetzee, Frame and
Atwood. Through the integrated articulation of notions such as
finitude, openness, exposure, immunity and death, we aim at
uncovering the strategies of communal figuration at work in modern
and contemporary fiction. Most of these strategies involve a
rejection of organic communities based on essentialist fusion and
an inclination to dramatize 'inoperative communities' (Nancy) of
singularities aware of their own finitude and exposed to that of
others.
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