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Geopolitics and the Anglophone novel, 1890-2011 / John Marx

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Marx, John
Published
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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1 online resource (viii, 246 pages)
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English.
Contents
Cover; GEOPOLITICS AND THE ANGLOPHONE NOVEL, 1890-2011; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The novel's administrative turn; CHAPTER 1: Fiction after liberalism; CHAPTER 2: How literature administers "failed" states; FAILURE IS NORMAL; FAILURE IN FICTION; THE AUTHOR-FUNCTION OF STATE; EXPERTS IN ATROCITY; CHAPTER 3: The novelistic management of inequality in the age of meritocracy; WE ARE ALL EXPERTS; REFORMING RESEARCH; IMPERIAL FEELING; HUMANITIES AMIDST HIERARCHIES; CHAPTER 4: Entrepreneurship and imperial politics in twentieth-century historical fiction. and WORLD-HISTORICAL NETWORKINGGLOBAL CLANS; COLONIAL RISK; CHAPTER 5: Women as economic actors in contemporary and modernist novels; THE FEMINIZATION OF GLOBALIZATION; WOMEN WHO NETWORK; AFTER THE DOMESTIC WOMAN; SISTERS AT WORK; Postscript: The literary politics of being well attached; Bibliography; Index.
Summary
"Literary fiction is a powerful cultural tool for criticizing governments and for imagining how better governance and better states would work. Combining political theory with strong readings of a vast range of novels, John Marx shows that fiction over the long twentieth century has often envisioned good government not in Utopian but in pragmatic terms. Early-twentieth-century novels by Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster and Rabindrananth Tagore helped forecast world government after European imperialism. Twenty-first-century novelists such as Monica Ali, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Michael Ondaatje and Amitav Ghosh have inherited that legacy and continue to criticize existing policies in order to formulate best practices on a global scale. Marx shows how literature can make an important contribution to political and social sciences by creating a space to imagine and experiment with social organization"--
"Geopolitics and the Anglophone Novel, 1890-2011 Literary fiction is a powerful cultural tool for criticizing governments and for imagining how better governance and better states would work. Combining political theory with strong readings of a vast range of novels, John Marx shows that fiction over the long twentieth century has often envisioned good government not in utopian but in pragmatic terms. Early-twentieth-century novels by Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, and Rabindrananth Tagore helped forecast world government after European imperialism. Twenty-first-century novelists such as Monica Ali, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Michael Ondaatje, and Amitav Ghosh have inherited that legacy and continue to criticize existing policies in order to formulate best practices on a global scale."--
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9781139380348 (electronic bk.)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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