The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms

Katherine Bowers is Associate Professor of Slavic Studies at the University of British Columbia. Bowers's research considers questions of literary form and genre. Her first monograph, Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic (2022), examines the ways European gothic fiction influenced the development of Russian realism. Her published work spans literary and media studies, digital humanities, and environmental humanities, as well as four co-edited volumes on topics in Russian literary and cultural history.Margarita Vaysman is Associate Professor of Nineteenth-Century Russophone Literature and Thought and Fellow in Russian at New College, University of Oxford. Her first monograph Self-Conscious Realism: Metafiction and the Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel was published in 2021. In 2020, Vaysman co-edited a volumeNineteenth-Century Russian Realism: Society, Knowledge, Narrative , which showcased the new interdisciplinary, inclusive approaches to the Russian realist canon. Her research focuses on literary texts, primarily the realist novel, and history of gender and sexuality.

• About the Editors List of Contributors 1. Global Theories, Chronologies, and Geographies of RealismKatherine Bowers and Margarita Vaysman Part I. Theories of Global Realism 2. The Politics of Postcolonial RealismMeghan Gorman-DaRif 3. Realism and the Subaltern in IndiaUlka Anjaria 4. Theorizing Global Realism from Lukács to Climate Crisis LiteratureTreasa De Loughry 5. Global Climate Realism in Blue Modern EuropeAnna Barcz 6. Affect and the Global Politics of Emotion in German RealismErvin Malakaj 7. Sentimentalism and the Gendered Aesthetics of Global RealismsHilde Hoogenboom 8. Global Disability Studies and Realist RepresentationHannah Thompson 9. Realism and Race in the Literature of the Global Hispanic EmpireJulia Haeyoon Chang 10. Digital Humanities and Literary RealismDaniil Skorinkin and Boris Orekhov 11. Indigi-realism and "Aye!"stheticsRenae Watchman Part II. Practices of Global Realism 12. Embodied Realisms in Australian Aboriginal ArtLiz Cameron 13. Realism and the Visual Arts in France and JapanMarika Takanishi Knowles 14. The Work of Realism, Shin, and Materia Medica in Nineteenth-Century JapanMaki Fukuoka 15. Victorian Realisms in the Age of Global TradeJessica R. Valdez 16. Global Realism and the Gothic GenreKatherine Bowers 17. Ottoman Armenian Visual Realism and Social ReformVazken Khatchig Davidian 18. Caribbean Diasporic Marvelous RealismMaría Alonso Alonso 19. Realist Drama as World DramaNing Wang 20. Considering Gay Realisms in Canadian TheaterConrad Alexandrowicz 21. Realism, Neorealism, and Hyperrealism in Argentine CinemaJuli A. Kroll 22. World Cinema and the Ethics of RealismLúcia Nagib Part III. Global Realisms and The Novel 23. Realism and Novel EthicsChristopher S. Weinberger 24. The Socialist Realist Novel in Central AsiaChris Fort 25. Capitalist Realism in the Arabic NovelRaya Alraddadi 26. The Global African NovelKatherine Hallemeier 27. Magic Realism in the African NovelOusmane Ngom 28. Realist Physiognomies and the Japanese Modernist NovelSatoshi Bamba 29. Realism in the Global Age of Modernism in China and the United StatesJulia Chan 30. Russian Metafiction and Global RealismsMargarita Vaysman Part IV. Intermedial Global Realisms 31. Global Traveling Realisms from Literature to FilmKate Holland 32. Intermedial Projections from Realism to NaturalismRobert Singer 33. Narrative Realism and TelevisionLisa W. Jacobson and Chloë Kitzinger 34. Journalism and Realist Fiction in Nineteenth-Century FranceEdmund Birch 35. Peripheral Realisms, War, and Catastrophe in Contemporary Iraqi FictionModhumita Roy 36. Realism and the Politics of Frequency in FilmmakingTerri Weissman 37. Documentary Forms and Realist TheaterLucie Kempf 38. Reality Effects and Oral Modes of EntextualizationRoma Chatterji 39. Computational Realism in the Digital HumanitiesAaron Mauro 40. Transing Holodeck Realism in Video GamesCody Mejeur 41. Preposterous Realism and Posthuman AestheticsChristoph Cox Index