Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps, "Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
New Books in Critical Theory
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What Is Hyper-Profit World Fiction?
World literature is a very dynamic, but also hotly contested field. It's networks of relations among geographically and chronologically distant texts. Other world fictions address international ecological disasters or the human crisis of refugees or world wars. We focus on what Helene Tienoff calls a particular zone of world literature. The heterotopic world fiction is informed by this, this, the importance of transformation and thinking otherwise.
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