{"product_id":"new-global-realism-gabriele-lazzari-9781350385672","title":"New Global Realism: Thinking Totality in the Contemporary Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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 examines writing in English, Italian, Kannada, and Spanish by authors from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Italy, India and Mexico.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy theorizing four modalities of totalization employed by contemporary realist writers, this book explores the current resurgence of realism and challenges critical approaches that consider it naive or formally unsophisticated. Instead, it argues that realist novels offer a self-conscious and serious representation of the world we inhabit while actively envisioning new social designs and political configurations. Through comparative studies of novels by Fernanda Melchor, NoViolet Bulawayo, Vivek Shanbhag, Nicola Lagioia, Igiaba Scego, Yaa Gyasi and Roberto Bola?o, this book further explains why realism can be a powerful antidote to the skepticism about the possibility of making truth-claims in humanist research.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gabriele Lazzari\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350385670\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350385672\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/19\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Gabriele Lazzari","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46334657626367,"sku":"9781350385672","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_243dc169-c3fb-47d7-a1b9-867cf2a57696.jpg?v=1731467426","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/new-global-realism-gabriele-lazzari-9781350385672","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}