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Author:   John Thieme (University of East Anglia, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:  

9781350296039

ISBN 10:   1350296031
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   07 September 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1.Introduction 2.‘Weather as Everything’: Social Realism in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior 3.Seeking ‘The Perfect Story’: Metajournalistic Realism in Helon Habila’s Oil on Water 4.Apocalypse Now? Visceral Realism in Liz Jensen’s The Rapture 5.Tracing Genealogies: Circumstantial Realism in Annie Proulx’s Barkskins 6.‘Trees Are Social Creatures’: Animist Realism in Richard Powers’ The Overstory 7.It’s Not Funny: Comic Realism in Ian McEwan’s Solar 8.Beyond the Anthropocene: Testimonial Realism in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People 9.Nordic Noir: Urban Realism in Antti Tuomainen’s The Healer 10.‘Everything Change’: Speculative Realism in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy 11.‘Outside the Range of the Probable’? Picaresque Realism in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island 12.Conclusion Bibliography

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John Thieme is currently Senior Fellow at the University of East Anglia, UK. He previously held Chairs at the University of Hull and London South Bank University and his previous books include Postcolonial Con-Texts: Writing Back to the Canon, Postcolonial Literary Geographies, Postcolonial Literary Geographies, and studies of Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul and R.K. Narayan.

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