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Contemporary Literature and the State Edited by Matthew Hart and Jim Hansen This special edition of Contemporary Literature investigates the connections and dissension between the literary artist and the state 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 to debates about the politics of literature, coming at a time when state power appears both more arbitrary and more necessary than ever. Matthew Hart is assistant professor in the Department of English and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Jim Hansen is assistant professor of English and critical theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Table of Contents Introduction: Contemporary Literature and the State, by Matthew Hart and Jim Hansen An Interview with Jeremy Cronin, conducted by Andrew van der Vlies Tsotsis: On Law, the Outlaw, and the Postcolonial State, by Rita Barnard The Third English Civil War: David Peace’s “Occult History” of Thatcherism, by Matthew Hart Failed-State Fiction, by John Marx Life, War, and Love: The Queer Anarchism of Robert Duncan’s Poetic Action during the Vietnam War, by Eric Keenaghan Samuel Beckett’s Catastrophe and the Theater of Pure Means, by Jim Hansen The Way Ahead: The Politics and Poetics of Singapore’s Developmental Landscape, by Jini Kim Watson Afterword: States of Time, by Ian Baucom For more information regarding publicity and reviews contact our publicity manager, Chris Caldwell, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu Of related interest Immigrant Fictions: Contemporary Literature in an Age of Globalization Edited by Rebecca L. Walkowitz

October 2009 240 pp.   6 x 9 1/4 ISBN 978-0-299-23244-3 Paper $19.95 s Add titles to your shopping cart by clicking on the "Add this book to cart" link above. You can submit your order electronically, paying for it with your credit card. Click here for a further explanation of the shopping cart feature Never ordered from us before? Read this first. • A special edition of the Winter 2008, Volume 49, Number 4 issue of Contemporary Literature

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