LEADER 03915nam 22007692 450 001 9910461483903321 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a1-107-22160-9 010 $a1-139-06401-0 010 $a1-283-11282-5 010 $a9786613112828 010 $a1-139-07647-7 010 $a1-139-08329-5 010 $a1-139-07875-5 010 $a1-139-08102-0 010 $a0-511-90267-0 010 $a1-139-07075-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000089168 035 $a(EBL)691983 035 $a(OCoLC)729166655 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000523355 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11347580 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000523355 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10542467 035 $a(PQKB)11282038 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511902673 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC691983 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL691983 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10469081 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL311282 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000089168 100 $a20100727d2011|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aImagination and the contemporary novel /$fJohn J. Su$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 219 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-64597-2 311 $a1-107-00677-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $a1. Introduction: globalization, imagination, and the novel -- 2. Aesthetic revolutions: white South African writing and the state of emergency -- 3. The pastoral and the postmodern -- 4. Hybridity, enterprise culture, and the fiction of multicultural Britain -- 5. Ghosts of essentialism: racial memory as epistemological claim -- 6. Amitav Ghosh and the aesthetic turn in postcolonial studies -- Conclusion: imagining together? 330 $aImagination and the Contemporary Novel examines the global preoccupation with the imagination among literary authors with ties to former colonies of the British Empire since the 1960s. John Su draws on a wide range of authors including Peter Ackroyd, Monica Ali, Julian Barnes, Andre? Brink, J. M. Coetzee, John Fowles, Amitav Ghosh, Nadine Gordimer, Hanif Kureishi, Salman Rushdie and Zadie Smith. This study rehabilitates the category of imagination in order to understand a broad range of contemporary Anglophone literature. The responses of such literature to shifts in global capitalism have often been misunderstood by the dominant categories of literary studies, the postmodern and the postcolonial. As both an insightful critique into the themes that drive a range of today's best novelists and a bold restatement of what the imagination is and what it means for contemporary culture, this book breaks new ground in the study of twenty-first-century literature. 517 3 $aImagination & the Contemporary Novel 606 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aImagination in literature 606 $aLiterature and globalization 606 $aPostcolonialism in literature 606 $aEnglish fiction$zEnglish-speaking countries$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aImagination in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and globalization. 615 0$aPostcolonialism in literature. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a823/.91409 700 $aSu$b John J.$01035703 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461483903321 996 $aImagination and the contemporary novel$92455545 997 $aUNINA