UID:
almahu_9949386109002882
Format:
1 online resource (vi, 164 pages)
ISBN:
9781003048480
,
100304848X
,
9781000074222
,
1000074226
,
9781000074260
,
1000074269
,
9781000074185
,
1000074188
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
Content:
How does literature matter politically in the 21st century? This book offers an ecocritical framework for exploring the significance of literature today. Featuring a diverse body of texts and authors, it develops a future-oriented politics embedded in those transgressive realities which our political system finds impossible to tame. This book re-imagines political agency, voices, bodies and borders as transformative processes rather than rigid realities, articulating a 'dia-topian' literary politics. Taking a contextual approach, it addresses such urgent global issues as biopolitics, migration and borders, populism, climate change, and terrorism. These readings revitalize fictional worlds for political enquiry, demonstrating how imaginative literature seeds change in a world of closed-off horizons. Prior to the pragmatics of power-play, literary language breathes new energy into the frames of our thought and the shapes of our affects. This book shows how relation, metamorphosis and enmeshment can become salient in a politics beyond the conflict line.
Note:
Includes index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Donn, Katharina. Politics of literature in a divided 21st Century. New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 ISBN 0367222515
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367222512
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003048480
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003048480
