Global Wallace

David Foster Wallace and World Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

AvLucas Thompson,Stephen J. Burn

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David Foster Wallace is invariably seen as an emphatically American figure. Lucas Thompson challenges this consensus, arguing that Wallace's investments in various international literary traditions are central to both his artistic practice and his critique of US culture. Thompson shows how, time and again, Wallace's fiction draws on a diverse range of global texts, appropriating various forms of world literature in the attempt to craft fiction that critiques US culture from oblique and unexpected vantage points.Using a wide range of comparative case studies, and drawing on extensive archival research, Global Wallace reveals David Foster Wallace's substantial debts to such unexpected figures as Jamaica Kincaid, Julio Cortázar, Jean Rhys, Octavio Paz, Leo Tolstoy, Zbigniew Herbert, and Albert Camus, among many others. It also offers a more comprehensive account of the key influences that Wallace scholars have already perceived, such as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, and Manuel Puig. By reassessing Wallace's body of work in relation to five broadly construed geographic territories -- Latin America, Russia, Eastern Europe, France, and Africa -- the book reveals the mechanisms with which Wallace played particular literary traditions off one another, showing how he appropriated vastly different global texts within his own fiction. By expanding the geographic coordinates of Wallace's work in this way, Global Wallace reconceptualizes contemporary American fiction, as being embedded within a global exchange of texts and ideas.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-12-01
Mått140 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt481 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieDavid Foster Wallace Studies
Antal sidor288
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501320668

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Series Editor’s IntroductionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Wallace and the WorldChapter One. Wallace and World LiteratureChapter Two. Wallace and Latin AmericaChapter Three. Wallace and RussiaChapter Four. Wallace and Eastern Europe: Kafka and OthersChapter Five. French Existentialism’s Afterlives: Wallace and the Fiction of the U.S. SouthChapter Six. African-American Appropriations: Race, Hip-Hop, and Popular Anthropology Conclusion. “It’s a Small Continent After All”? Wallace and the WorldBibliographyIndex

When a piece of literary criticism makes you aware at every turn of the substantial limits not just of your knowledge of a subject—one you thought you knew something about—but also of the frameworks in which you think, its worth and importance are blindingly obvious. Such was my experience in reading Lucas Thompson’s Global Wallace: David Foster Wallace and World Literature. Its well-researched and wide-ranging attention to Wallace’s global influences and intertexts should also be a shot of adrenaline into a Wallace Studies. … Thompson’s book is itself a model of diligent criticism—impeccably researched, clearly written and organized, and (increasingly rare in new work on Wallace) appropriately contextualized in the rich network of Wallace criticism that came before it. ... It will prompt critics to bring a variety of new lenses to bear on his fiction and nonfiction, likely generating an abundance of exciting new readings and pathways for readings in classrooms and on the page.