Contemporary Literature and the State

by Jim Hansen

Contemporary Literature and the State challenges the critical opposition between the monolithic state and the individual artist. The volume collects essays on writers as different as Samuel Beckett and Ngozi Adichie and covers historical and geographical contexts from Yorkshire to Singapore, San Francisco to Cape Town. Featuring new and established critical voices, Contemporary Literature and the State is an important new contribution...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299232441
• ISBN13: 9780299232443
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.3"