Contemporary literature and the state - Hart, Matthew; Hansen, Jim, 1968-; American Council of Learned Societies (Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 2008)
Introduction: contemporary literature and the state / Matthew Hart a nd Jim Hansen -- An interview with Jeremy Cronin / Andrew Van Der Vlies -- Tsotsis: on law, the outlaw, and the postcolonial state / Rita Barn ard -- The third English civil war: David Peace's "Occult history" of T hatcherism / Matthew Hart -- Failed-state fiction / John Marx -- Life, war and love: the queer anarchism of Robert Duncan's poetic action duri ng the Vietnam war / Eric Keenaghan -- Samuel Beckett's Catastrophe and the theater of pure means / Jim Hansen -- The way ahead: the politics and poetics of Sinapore's developmental landscape / Jini Kim Watson -- Afterword: states of time / Ian Baucom.
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Keywords: Politics in literature; Literature and state; Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism