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World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time

Filippo Menozzi
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      Drawing on a Marxist concept of world literature, this book is a study of the manipulations of time in contemporary anglophone fiction from Africa and South Asia. Through critical work and literary reading, this research explores the times other than the present that seem to haunt an era of capitalist globalisation: nostalgic feelings about bygone ideals of identity and community, appeals to Golden Ages, returns of the repressed and anxious anticipations of global extinction and catastrophe. The term non-synchronism explored in this book captures these dislocations of the present, while offering a critical lens to grasp the politics of time of an era marked by the continuing expansion of capitalist modernity. Most importantly, non-synchronism is a dialectical paradigm charged with antagonistic political valences. The literary analysis presented in the volume hence connects the literary manipulation of time to discourses on extinction, accumulation, nostalgia, modernity and survival in global politics and literature.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Filippo Menozzi EAN: 9783030416973 COUNTRY: Switzerland PAGES: WEIGHT: 454 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer Nature Switzerland AG DATE PUBLISHED: 2020-06-07 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

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      Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Comparative literature, Political science and theory, History: specific events and topics

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      Filippo Menozzi (PhD, Kent) is Lecturer in postcolonial and world literature at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He is the author of Postcolonial Custodianship: Cultural and Literary Inheritance (2014), and his work has appeared in journals such as New Formations and Historical Materialism. In 2019, he was awarded a Teaching Excellence Award.
      Drawing on a Marxist concept of world literature, this book is a study of the manipulations of time in contemporary anglophone fiction from Africa and South Asia. Through critical work and literary reading, this research explores the times other than the present that seem to haunt an era of capitalist globalisation: nostalgic feelings about bygone ideals of identity and community, appeals to Golden Ages, returns of the repressed and anxious anticipations of global extinction and catastrophe. The term non-synchronism explored in this book captures these dislocations of the present, while offering a critical lens to grasp the politics of time of an era marked by the continuing expansion of capitalist modernity. Most importantly, non-synchronism is a dialectical paradigm charged with antagonistic political valences. The literary analysis presented in the volume hence connects the literary manipulation of time to discourses on extinction, accumulation, nostalgia, modernity and survival in global politics and literature.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Filippo Menozzi EAN: 9783030416973 COUNTRY: Switzerland PAGES: WEIGHT: 454 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer Nature Switzerland AG DATE PUBLISHED: 2020-06-07 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

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      Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Comparative literature, Political science and theory, History: specific events and topics

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      Filippo Menozzi (PhD, Kent) is Lecturer in postcolonial and world literature at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He is the author of Postcolonial Custodianship: Cultural and Literary Inheritance (2014), and his work has appeared in journals such as New Formations and Historical Materialism. In 2019, he was awarded a Teaching Excellence Award.

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