Browsing by Subject "Contemporary novel"

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    • Disposable Life: The Literary Imagination and the Contemporary Novel 

      Ciobanu, Calina (2015)
      This dissertation explores how the contemporary Anglophone novel asks its readers to imagine and respond to disposable life as it emerges in our present-day biopolitical landscape. As the project frames it, disposable life ...

    • Novel Speculations: Postrace Fictions in the 21st Century 

      Song, Ellen (2018)
      This project charts the emergence of a postrace aesthetic in American fiction. It examines how American novels respond to the pressures of what has been called the paradox of the postrace era: that our images and rhetoric ...