Toward the Geopolitical Novel: U.S. Fiction in the Twenty-First Century by Irr, Caren

Toward the Geopolitical Novel: U.S. Fiction in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231164412)

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Toward the Geopolitical Novel: U.S. Fiction in the Twenty-First Century by Irr, Caren

Toward the Geopolitical Novel: U.S. Fiction in the Twenty-First Century

$34.00
Toward the Geopolitical Novel: U.S. Fiction in the Twenty-First Century by Irr, Caren

Toward the Geopolitical Novel: U.S. Fiction in the Twenty-First Century

$34.00
Format: Paperback
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Caren Irr's survey of more than 125 novels outlines the dramatic resurgence of the American political novel in the twenty-first century. She explores the writings of Chris Abani, Susan Choi, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Díaz, Dave Eggers, Jeffrey Eugenides, Aleksandar Hemon, Hari Kunzru, Dinaw Mengestu, Norman Rush, Gary Shteyngart, and others as they rethink stories of migration, the Peace Corps, nationalism and neoliberalism, revolution, and the expatriate experience. Taken together, these innovations define a new literary form: the geopolitical novel. More cosmopolitan and socially critical than domestic realism, the geopolitical novel provides new ways of understanding crucial political concepts to meet the needs of a new century.

Author: Caren Irr
ISBN-10: 0231164416
ISBN-13: 9780231164412
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/17/2013
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2015 pg. 1313
By Caren Irr
By Caren Irr
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Caren Irr is professor of English at Brandeis University and author of Pink Pirates: Contemporary American Women Writers and Copyright.

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