The Aesthetics of Global Realism: Scales, Models, Technology, Ecology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction
4. The Fire This Time: Working with Universality 1
5. Part 1: Modes of Reading
6. The Singularity of Literary Production: Verma and Borges in London, 1976 21
7. Reading for Nobel and the Idea of the Universal 39
8. African Vernaculars and the Universal in Translation 57
9. Multiple Vernacularizations 75
10. Part 2: Aesthetic Universalizations
11. (Im)personal Style: James Baldwin, Joan Didion and the Inscription of the Universal 97
12. Surface Listening: American Accents, African Agendas 117
13. Circles of Change: Concrete Universality in the Aesthetics of Protest and Revolution 141
14. Erotics of Revolution: Mongane Serote and the Black Cosmological Archive 167
15. Part 3: The Human in and After Globalization
16. Peasant Modernism: World Literature and the Future of Agriculture 191
17. Post-global Aesthetics in Latin America: Beyond Universality? 209
18. Overcoming the Cosmopolitanism–Vernacularism Opposition in Latin America: Juan Rulfo and the Nordic Countries; Juan L. Ortiz and China 229
19. Fashioning Universality in Literature: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s La plus secrète mémoire des hommes 245
20. Part 4: Planetary Universality
21. The Aesthetics of Global Realism: Scales, Models, Technology, Ecology 265
22. Pluviality and Drought in J. M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K 283
23. Amitav Ghosh and Twenty-First-Century World Literature: Climate Change and the Collective Imaginary 299
24. Whose World? Whose World Literature? Looking for Climate Fiction in China 315
25. List of Contributors 333
26. Index 337