{"product_id":"global-wallace-lucas-thompson-9781501342707","title":"Global Wallace: David Foster Wallace and World Literature","description":"David Foster Wallace is invariably seen as an emphatically American figure. Lucas Thompson challenges this consensus, arguing that Wallace's investments in various international literary traditions are central to both his artistic practice and his critique of US culture. Thompson shows how, time and again, Wallace's fiction draws on a diverse range of global texts, appropriating various forms of world literature in the attempt to craft fiction that critiques US culture from oblique and unexpected vantage points.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Using a wide range of comparative case studies, and drawing on extensive archival research, \u003ci\u003eGlobal Wallace \u003c\/i\u003ereveals David Foster Wallace's substantial debts to such unexpected figures as Jamaica Kincaid, Julio Cort痙ar, Jean Rhys, Octavio Paz, Leo Tolstoy, Zbigniew Herbert, and Albert Camus, among many others. It also offers a more comprehensive account of the key influences that Wallace scholars have already perceived, such as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, and Manuel Puig. By reassessing Wallace's body of work in relation to five broadly construed geographic territories -- Latin America, Russia, Eastern Europe, France, and Africa -- the book reveals the mechanisms with which Wallace played particular literary traditions off one another, showing how he appropriated vastly different global texts within his own fiction. By expanding the geographic coordinates of Wallace's work in this way, \u003ci\u003eGlobal Wallace\u003c\/i\u003e reconceptualizes contemporary American fiction, as being embedded within a global exchange of texts and ideas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lucas Thompson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501342703\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501342707\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/28\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d","brand":"Lucas Thompson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44149391032575,"sku":"9781501342707","price":47.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ef74bc68-8c85-48e6-b60e-14fd1d7e5e4d.jpg?v=1688456444","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/global-wallace-lucas-thompson-9781501342707","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}