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Worldly Spirits, Extra-Human Dimensions, and the Global Anglophone Novel

Autor Dr Hilary Thompson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 dec 2023
Engaging a diverse range of contemporary anglophone literature from authors of the Asian, Middle Eastern and Caribbean diasporas, this book explores how such works turn to spirit forces, spirit realms and spirit beings - were-animals, mystical birds, and snake goddesses - as positive forces that assert perceptual dimensions beyond those of the human, and present a vision of Earth as agentive and animate. With previous scholarship downplaying these aspects of modern works as uncanny hauntings or symptoms of capitalism's or anthropocentrism's destructiveness, or within a blanket rubric of 'magical realism', Hilary Thompson rejects this partitioning of them as products of an exotic East or global South. By contrast, this book builds a new critical framework for analysis of worldly spirits, drawing on anthropological discussions of animism, the newly recovered 1930s boundary-crossing art movement Dimensionism, and multispecies theories of animals' diverse perceptual worlds. Taking stock of novels published from 2018-2020 by such writers as Amitav Ghosh, André Alexis, Yangsze Choo, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Zeyn Joukhadar, and Tanya Tagaq, Thompson illuminates how these works extend an ecological call to decentre the human and align with multidimensional theories of art and literature to provide ways to read for rather than reduce the extra-human dimensions emerging in contemporary fiction. A refreshing rejection of ecological apocalypticism, this book unsettles typical conceptualizations of both anglophone and Anthropocene literatures by invoking European art theory, philosophy, and non-Western ideas on animism and spirits to put forward perceptions of the extra-human as a form of dealing with the many uncertainties of today's different crises.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350373815
ISBN-10: 1350373818
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Offers an alternative to largely reductive and fatalistic readings of spirits in our ecologically imperiled time by proposing a new critical framework on how to read expansive life-worlds and even afterlife-worlds

Notă biografică

Hilary Thompson is Associate Professor of English at Bowdoin College, USA. She is author of Novel Creatures: Animal Life and the New Millennium (2018) and has published multiple articles on Amitav Ghosh and on global anglophone literature, biopolitics, and the Anthropocene.

Cuprins

IntroductionInteranimisms: Spirits, Species, and Dimensions of Planet-Thinking I: RIPPLESChapter 1Spirited Creatures: The Weretigers and their Worlds in Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger Chapter 2Creaturely Dimensionism: Unbearable Worlds in Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi's Call Me Zebra II: PORTALSChapter 3Provincializing Dimensionism: The Paranormal Ontario of André Alexis's Days by Moonlight Chapter 4Foreseeable Futures: Avataric History in Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island III: SPIRALSChapter 5Expected on Earth: Distributive Redemption in Zeyn Joukhadar's The Thirty Names of Night and Tanya Tagaq's Split Tooth Recalling Gaia: A Note in EndingBibliography Endnotes Index