{"product_id":"swallowing-a-world-globalization-and-the-maximalist-novel-hardback-9781496231284","title":"Swallowing a World; Globalization and the Maximalist Novel (Hardback) 9781496231284","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSwallowing a World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGlobalization and the Maximalist Novel\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBenjamin Bergholtz (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496231284\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 October 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e252 pages, Index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.524 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSwallowing a World\u003c\/i\u003e offers a brilliant and refreshing account of the contemporary global novel as a maximalist form that both captures the capacious diversity of globalization and transforms erstwhile encyclopedic genres. Familiar works by Salmon Rushdie and Zadie Smith appear in sparklingly new garb, and first-time novels like \u003ci\u003eThe Old Drift\u003c\/i\u003e trouble a distinguished, and mostly male, maximalist lineage that includes the epic, the encyclopedia, and Menippean satire.”-Debjani Ganguly, author of \u003ci\u003eThis Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Bergholtz makes a powerful and elegant case for the significance and urgency of his subject, addressing compellingly the maximalist novel genre’s particular relevance to and engagement with our time-the era of late globalization. \u003ci\u003eSwallowing a World\u003c\/i\u003e strikes me as the best book published in this area in the post–Cold War years. . . . His work is eminently readable.”-Christian Moraru, author of \u003ci\u003eFlat Aesthetics: Twenty-First-Century American Fiction and the Making of the Contemporary\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Overwhelmed as we are by the impacts of globalization, climate change, and disinformation campaigns, why would we want to read exceedingly long novels? Bergholtz’s answer: ‘maximalist’ fiction offers our exhausted imaginations a reading process that can sustain and inspire us.”-Elena Machado SÁez, author of \u003ci\u003eMarket Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Latino\/a Canon\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Benjamin Bergholtz’s sharp and compelling \u003ci\u003eSwallowing a World\u003c\/i\u003e will long stand as a landmark in the fast-growing field of maximalist novel studies.”-Stefano Ercolino, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Maximalist Novel: From Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow” to Roberto BolaÑo’s “2666”\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eSwallowing a World\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new theorization of the maximalist novel. Though it’s typically cast as a (white, male) genre of U.S. fiction, maximalism, Benjamin Bergholtz argues, is an aesthetic response to globalization and a global phenomenon in its own right.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bergholtz considers a selection of massive and meandering novels that crisscross from London and Lusaka to Kingston, Kabul, and Kashmir and that represent, formally reproduce, and ultimately invite reflection on the effects of globalization. Each chapter takes up a maximalist novel that simultaneously maps and formally mimics a cornerstone of globalization, such as the postcolonial culture industry (Salman Rushdie’s \u003ci\u003eMidnight’s Children\u003c\/i\u003e), the rebirth of fundamentalism (Zadie Smith’s \u003ci\u003eWhite Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e), the transnational commodification of violence (Marlon James’s \u003ci\u003eA Brief History of Seven Killings\u003c\/i\u003e), the obstruction of knowledge by narrative (Zia Haider Rahman’s \u003ci\u003eIn the Light of What We Know\u003c\/i\u003e), and globalization’s gendered, asymmetrical growth (Namwali Serpell’s \u003ci\u003eThe Old Drift\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e By reframing analysis of maximalism around globalization, \u003ci\u003eSwallowing a World\u003c\/i\u003e not only reimagines one of the most perplexing genres of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries but also sheds light on some of the most perplexing political problems of our precarious present.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Introduction: Mapping the Maximalist Novel\u003cbr\u003e 1. See the Whole World, Come See Everything! \u003ci\u003eMidnight’s Children\u003c\/i\u003e and the Postcolonial Culture Industry\u003cbr\u003e 2. Certainty in Its Purest Form: Globalization, Fundamentalism, and Narrative in \u003ci\u003eWhite Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. It Shouldn’t Produce No Pretty Sentence, Ever: Violence and Aesthetics in \u003ci\u003eA Brief History of Seven Killings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Pursuit of Knowledge: The Paradoxes of Postcolonial Encyclopedism in \u003ci\u003eIn the Light of What We Know\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Two Dumb Inertias: The Uneven Drift of Globalization in \u003ci\u003eThe Old Drift\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Future of Maximalist Fiction \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52600020238616,"sku":"9781496231284","price":36.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/swallowing-a-world-globalization-and-the-maximalist-novel-hardback-9781496231284","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}