Worldly Spirits, Extra-Human Dimensions, and the Global Anglophone Novel
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 28 December 2023
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350373815
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 566
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Long description:
Engaging a diverse range of contemporary anglophone literature from authors of the Asian, Middle Eastern and Caribbean diasporas, this book explores how such works turn to spirit forces, spirit realms and spirit beings - were-animals, mystical birds, and snake goddesses - as positive forces that assert perceptual dimensions beyond those of the human, and present a vision of Earth as agentive and animate. With previous scholarship downplaying these aspects of modern works as uncanny hauntings or symptoms of capitalism's or anthropocentrism's destructiveness, or within a blanket rubric of 'magical realism', Hilary Thompson rejects this partitioning of them as products of an exotic East or global South. By contrast, this book builds a new critical framework for analysis of worldly spirits, drawing on anthropological discussions of animism, the newly recovered 1930s boundary-crossing art movement Dimensionism, and multispecies theories of animals' diverse perceptual worlds.
Taking stock of novels published from 2018-2020 by such writers as Amitav Ghosh, André Alexis, Yangsze Choo, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Zeyn Joukhadar, and Tanya Tagaq, Thompson illuminates how these works extend an ecological call to decentre the human and align with multidimensional theories of art and literature to provide ways to read for rather than reduce the extra-human dimensions emerging in contemporary fiction.
A refreshing rejection of ecological apocalypticism, this book unsettles typical conceptualizations of both anglophone and Anthropocene literatures by invoking European art theory, philosophy, and non-Western ideas on animism and spirits to put forward perceptions of the extra-human as a form of dealing with the many uncertainties of today's different crises.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Interanimisms: Spirits, Species, and Dimensions of Planet-Thinking
I: RIPPLES
Chapter 1
Spirited Creatures: The Weretigers and their Worlds in Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger
Chapter 2
Creaturely Dimensionism: Unbearable Worlds in Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi's Call Me Zebra
II: PORTALS
Chapter 3
Provincializing Dimensionism: The Paranormal Ontario of André Alexis's Days by Moonlight
Chapter 4
Foreseeable Futures: Avataric History in Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island
III: SPIRALS
Chapter 5
Expected on Earth: Distributive Redemption in Zeyn Joukhadar's The Thirty Names of Night and Tanya Tagaq's Split Tooth
Recalling Gaia: A Note in Ending
Bibliography
Endnotes
Index
Worldly Spirits, Extra-Human Dimensions, and the Global Anglophone Novel
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