{"product_id":"anglophone-verse-novels-as-gutter-dirk-wiemann-9781501399503","title":"Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts: Postcolonial Literature and the Politics of Gaps","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts\u003c\/i\u003e draws on the notion of the 'gutter' in graphic narratives - the gap between panels that a reader has to imaginatively fill to generate narrative sequence - to analyse the largely overlooked literary form of the verse novel. Marked at all levels by the tense constellation of segment and sequence, and a conspicuously 'gappy' texture, verse novels offer productive alternatives to the dominant prose novel in contemporary fiction, where a similar 'gappiness' has become a hallmark, as illustrated by the loosely interlaced multi-strand plot structures of influential 'world novels' (Bola, Mitchell, Powers). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe verse novel is a form particularly prolific in the postcolonial world and among diasporic or minoritarian writers in the Global North. This study concentrates on two of the most prominent areas in which verse novels distinguish themselves from the prose novel to read texts by Derek Walcott, Anne Carson, Bernardine Evaristo, Patience Agbabi and others: In 'planetary' verse novels from the Caribbean, Canada, Samoa and Hawai'i, the central trope of the volcano evokes a world in constant un\/making; while post-national verse novels, particularly in Britain, modify the established paradigms of imagined communities. Dirk Wiemann's study speculates whether the resurgence of verse novels correlates with the apprehension of inhabiting a world that has become unpredictable and dangerous but also promising: a 'post-prosaic' world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dirk Wiemann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501399500\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501399503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/13\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Dirk Wiemann","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44076692308223,"sku":"9781501399503","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2ae3dab0-6205-4969-a503-bcd680620547.jpg?v=1685466311","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/anglophone-verse-novels-as-gutter-dirk-wiemann-9781501399503","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}