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Politics and literature at the turn of the millennium /
"This book shows how important insights about genocide, poverty, state violence, world terrorism, the clash of civilizations, and other phenomena haunting the world at the turn of the millennium can be derived from contemporary novels. Keren demonstrates ways in which fictional literature can p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Calgary, Alberta :
University of Calgary Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Politics and literature
- 2. The "original position" in José Saramago's Blindness
- 3. Absurdity and revolt in Cormac McCarthy's The road
- 4. The bystander's tale : Gil Courtemanche's A Sunday at the pool in Kigali
- 5. Fiction and the study of slums : Anosh Irani's The cripple and his talismans
- 6. Narrative and memory in Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the shore, Günter Grass's Crabwalk and André Brink's The rights of desire
- 7. The politics of victimhood in John Le Carré's Absolute friends
- 8. The quest for identity in Sayed Kashua's Let it be morning
- 9. Political escapism in contemporary Israel : David Grossman's To the end of the land
- 10. Body and mind in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and crake
- 11. A Canadian alternative to the clash of civilizations : Yann Martel's Life of Pi.