Beschreibung:
"A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent the social and economic inequalities of the present, this book studies writing in English, Italian, Kannada, and Spanish by authors from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Italy, India and Mexico"--
Introduction - New Global Realism: Totality, Scale, and Humanistic TruthChapter 1 - Intensive Localization: Geographies of Violence and Displacement in Fernanda Melchor and NoViolet BulawayoChapter 2 - Combination in the Semi-Peripheral Novel: Vivek Shanbhag and Nicola LagioiaChapter 3 - Juxtaposition: Revisiting Histories of Race and Migration in Igiaba Scego and Yaa GyasiChapter 4 - Scaling Up to the Extensive TotalityConclusion - Global Comparative FuturesBibliography