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In this compelling study, Debjani Ganguly makes a powerful case for novelistic witnessing as a countervailing force in today's 'mediated deathscapes' of terrorism and state violence. Situated at the intersection of postcolonial theory, world literature, and media studies, This Thing Called the World will interest anyone who wants to think freshly about the function of literature, and of criticism, at the present time. -- David Damrosch, Harvard University This Thing Called the World makes a superb contribution to the study of the contemporary novel and to the energetic debates on world literature. Debjani Ganguly's work is informed throughout by her deep and subtle understanding of the scholarship on the history of the novel and a broad range of literary, media, and political theory. Her close readings of the well-chosen and impressively extensive primary texts are invariably fine, and are often stunning in their nuance and insight. An extremely important and significant book. -- Ian Baucom, author of Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History

This Thing Called the World makes a superb contribution to the study of the contemporary novel and to the energetic debates on world literature. Debjani Ganguly's work is informed throughout by her deep and subtle understanding of the scholarship on the history of the novel and a broad range of literary, media, and political theory. Her close readings of the well-chosen and impressively extensive primary texts are invariably fine, and are often stunning in their nuance and insight. An extremely important and significant book. --Ian Baucom, author of Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History

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Debjani Ganguly is Professor of English and Director of the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Caste and Dalit Lifeworlds: Postcolonial Perspectives.  

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