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The Politics of Literature in a Divided 21st Century book cover

1st Edition

The Politics of Literature in a Divided 21st Century

By Katharina Donn Copyright 2020
170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introduction: Towards a Diatopian Politics of Literature

  1. Unmappable Gestures: Politics of Literature in the Age of Donald Trump
  2. Uncontainable Bodies: Posthuman Biopolitics
  3. Transversing the Event: Beyond the Trauma of Terrorism
  4. Emergence, Submergence, Insurgence: Politics on Liquid Ground

  5.  Unravelling the Nation State: Openwork Lives in Migrant Graphic Narratives

     

Biography

Dr. Katharina Donn is a teacher, lecturer and author in 20th century and contemporary literature. She specializes in memory and trauma studies, ecocriticism, feminism, and the politics of literature. Her first monograph A Poetics of Trauma after 9/11 (Routledge, 2016) explores the entanglement of intimate vulnerability and virtual spectacle that is typical of the globalized present. Katharina has taught at the Universität Augsburg in Germany and the University of Texas at Austin in the US, and has held research fellowships at the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies and the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library.

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