عنوان

Reading Mohsin Hamid's Exit West as a World Novel

شماره

LA119497

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Reading Mohsin Hamid's Exit West as a World Novel

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Mushtaq Bilal

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This paper investigates how Mohsin Hamid's fiction challenges the so-called "natural law" of world literature according to which a work of literature has to be first born into a national literature before circulating into world literature. In addition, the paper shows how Hamid's fiction and its reception strains the category of "national literature." Building on the theoretical insights of Vittorio Coletti and Alexander Beecroft, I argue that Hamid's 2017 novel Exit West can be read as a world novel because it narrates the world by framing the displacement of its characters in terms of migratory movement from the Global South to the Global North. The two narrative devices characteristic of the genre of world novel used in Exit West are: delocalization of place and entrelacement, or multi-strand narration. This paper investigates how Mohsin Hamid's fiction challenges the so-called "natural law" of world literature according to which a work of literature has to be first born into a national literature before circulating into world literature. In addition, the paper shows how Hamid's fiction and its reception strains the category of "national literature." Building on the theoretical insights of Vittorio Coletti and Alexander Beecroft, I argue that Hamid's 2017 novel Exit West can be read as a world novel because it narrates the world by framing the displacement of its characters in terms of migratory movement from the Global South to the Global North. The two narrative devices characteristic of the genre of world novel used in Exit West are: delocalization of place and entrelacement, or multi-strand narration.

تاريخ نشر

2020

توصيف ظاهري

410-427

عنوان

Journal of World Literature

شماره جلد

5/3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2405-6480

اصطلاح موضوعی

"natural law" of world literature

اصطلاح موضوعی

anglophone literature

اصطلاح موضوعی

Mohsin Hamid

اصطلاح موضوعی

Pakistani literature

اصطلاح موضوعی

post-postcolonial

اصطلاح موضوعی

world novel

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Mushtaq Bilal

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/24056480-00503006

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y