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Infrastructures of Crisis in Global Twenty-First-Century Literature

Infrastructures of Crisis in Global Twenty-First-Century Literature

Neave, Lucy

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Literary Criticism

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ISBN10: 139953954X
ISBN13: 9781399539548
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Pages: 200
Language: English
Discourse about crisis is pervasive in the mass media and scholarship, and in discussions about the discipline of literary studies. Contemporary narratives about crisis concern systems and infrastructures on which societies rely. This book critically engages with crises as events of excess which surpass containment efforts by governments and institutions: as occurrences that generate conflicting discourses, meanings and political responses and as entangled with visible and underlying structures. Infrastructures of Crisis concentrates on the evocation of infrastructure in literary and filmic texts about real-world events, such as nuclear accidents, the 'refugee crisis', pandemics and climate change, and works across scholarly conversations to examine how a range of cataclysms is figured, as well as how cultural products dramatise infrastructures' entanglements with neoliberalism and colonialism.

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