New Global Realism : Thinking Totality in the Contemporary Novel - Gabriele Lazzari

New Global Realism

Thinking Totality in the Contemporary Novel

By: Gabriele Lazzari

Hardcover | 19 September 2024

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A 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.

By 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.

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This is a very exciting book; timely, intellectual, and moving in all the right directions of the future of literary study.
Professor Stephen Shapiro, University of Warwick, UK

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