Global Failure and World Literature : : Reading the Contemporary Quest Novel / / Karen Borg Cardona.
While the contemporary era has witnessed a series of spectacular failures with severe and widespread global consequences, failure is still broadly understood on an individual level, while its broader causes and consequences receive little attention. This book reconceptualises failure as a method for...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Culture & Conflict ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VII, 167 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- 1 Introduction: Conceptualisations of Failure and the Quest Narrative
- 2 American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: The End of the World in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
- 3 Failing to Listen, Failing to Speak: Narrating Women’s Experience in Julia Kristeva’s Possessions
- 4 Human Rights and Eurocentric Universalism: Questioning Truth and Justice in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost
- 5 Dystopia, Erasure, and Waiting: Navigating Post-Revolutionary Egypt in Basma Abdel Aziz’s The Queue
- 6 Conclusion: Reconceptualising Failure
- Works Cited
- Index