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In contrast to the littérature engagée popularized after the Second World War, literature since 1995 makes use of innovative aesthetic and political techniques. The study asks how contemporary literature thematizes politics, and explores literature's ability to create fictional spaces for imagination and reflection by way of recent developments in political philosophy, literary studies, and political science.

Politics in literature. --- Politics in literature

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"The multicultural world of today is often said to be marked by a certain kind of exoticization: a "fetishizing process", as Graham Huggan has called it, which separates a "first world" from a "third world", the Occident from the Orient. The essays collected here re-assess this tendency, not least by focusing on the kinds of intellectual tourism and dilettantism to which it has given rise. The wider context of these analyses is a postcolonial scenario where literatures and languages can move from the "exotic" to the comparatively "familiar" space of contemporary writings; where an exotic mythos can live on into the familiar present; and where certain perceptions and representations of peoples, of literatures, and of languages have turned exoticization and familiarization into global modes of mass-cultural consumption. Especially by exploring the liminalities between different cultures, this collection manages to trace both the history and the politics of exoticist representation and, in so doing, to make a significant critical intervention"--

Exoticism in literature. --- Other (Philosophy) in literature.

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This bold and ambitious volume argues that postcolonial historical fiction offers readers valuable resources for thinking about history and the relationship between past and present. It shows how the genre's treatment of colonialism illustrates continuities between the colonial era and our own and how the genre distils from our colonial pasts the evanescent, utopian intimations of a properly postcolonial future.0'Critique and Utopia in Postcolonial Historical Fiction' arrives at these insights by juxtaposing novels from the Atlantic world with books from the Indian subcontinent. Attending to the links across these regions, the volume develops luminous readings of novels by Patrick Chamoiseau, J.G. Farrell, Amitav Ghosh, Marlon James, Hari Kunzru, Toni Morrison, Marlene van Niekerk, Arundhati Roy, Kamila Shamsie, and Barry Unsworth. It shows how these works not only transform our understanding0of the colonial past and the futures that might issue from it, but also contribute to pressing debates in postcolonial theory-debates about the politics of literary forms, the links between cycles of capital accumulation and the emergence of new genres, the meaning of 'working through' traumas in the0postcolonial context, the relationship between colonial and panoptical power, the continued salience of hybridity and mimicry for the study of colonialism, and the tension between national liberation struggles and transnational forms of solidarity.0Beautifully written and meticulously theorized, 'Critique and Utopia in Postcolonial Historical Fiction' will be of interest to students of world literature, Marxist critics, postcolonial theorists, and thinkers of the utopian.

Postcolonialism in literature --- Utopias in literature

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Lorsqu'en 1922, le réalisateur allemand E W. Murnau réalise une des toutes premières adaptations cinématographiques de Dracula, le roman de Bram Stoker, il rebaptise le vampire en Nosferatu. Chef-d'oeuvre du cinéma muet expressionniste, son film reste à ce jour une des réussites les plus envoûtantes du cinéma fantastique. Depuis lors, de nombreux films ont poursuivi l'éloge du célèbre vampire, abandonnant le plus souvent la sombre mélancolie de Murnau pour donner libre cours à une imagination délirante mêlant calèches au galop dans la nuit, château médiéval, chauve-souris inquiétantes, jeunes femmes hurlant de terreur, effets de cape et rivières de sang.Cependant, de Nosferatu aux innombrables Draculas, il n'y a pas qu'un jeu de patronymes. Il importe dès lors de reprendre le dossier à sa source pour tenter de répondre à cette question essentielle : d'où viennent les vampires ?

Vampires in literature --- Vampires

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This major new work by Fredric Jameson is not a book about 'method,' but it does propose a dialectic capable of holding together in one breath the heterogeneities that reflect our biological individualities, our submersion in collective history and class struggle, and our alienation to a disembodied new world of information and abstraction. Eschewing the arid secularities of philosophy, Walter Benjamin once recommended the alternative of the rich figurality of an older theology; in that spirit we here return to the antiquated Ptolemaic systems of ancient allegory and its multiple levels (a proposal first sketched out in The Political Unconscious); it is tested against the epic complexities of the overtly allegorical works of Dante, Spenser and the Goethe of Faust II, as well as symphonic form in music, and the structure of the novel, postmodern as well as Third World: about which a notorious essay on National Allegory is here reprinted with a theoretical commentary; and an allegorical history of emotion is meanwhile rehearsed from its contemporary, geopolitical context.

Allegory. --- Ideology in literature. --- Allegory --- Ideology in literature --- Personification in literature --- Symbolism in literature --- Literary semiotics