Contemporary Literature Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Contemporary Literature

In the latest issue of CL, José Felipe Alvergue reviews Edgar Garcia’s SIGNS OF THE AMERICAS, a book that reveals how “alternative signifying systems have come to occupy textual and performative spaces of contemporary writing.” https://t.co/tnc370vy59 @UChicagoPress https://t.co/Ss3BEozyJ0

Contemporary Literature

In this #TBT article from 2011, Elizabeth Outka discusses the blending of present and future experiences in Arundhati Roy's THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS: https://t.co/HQIIGKjLnF

Contemporary Literature

Louise Erdrich’s THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE “insists on both the maintenance of irreconcilable differences―even binaries―and the potential of rapprochement,” argues @CynthiaRWallace in the latest CL: https://t.co/feH47F58xk

Contemporary Literature

Angela Hume reviews Sonya Posmentier’s Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature (@JHUPress) in the latest CL: https://t.co/oZKtTJihnP

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@DrDomDavies reviews Steven Blevins’s Living Cargo: How Black Britain Performs Its Past (@UMinnPress) in the latest CL: https://t.co/CSchbvETQJ

Contemporary Literature

"My feeling is that minority writers are expected to be translators to majority audiences, either linguistically or culturally or both. So I wrote THE SYMPATHIZER in a way that refused minority-to-majority translation" -Viet Thanh Nguyen https://t.co/NgClJ1XfxR

Contemporary Literature

In the latest CL, @E5Callaway uses the #scifi genre to reexamine the concept of “biodiversity,” looking specifically at the alternate ecosystems presented in DUNE by Frank Herbert and SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD by Orson Scott Card https://t.co/G0QI8MUo1x @udigitalmatters https://t.co/efAjP0PdWi

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Looking at David Mitchell’s GHOSTWRITTEN & Richard Powers’s THE OVERSTORY, Marco Caracciolo identifies the narrative strategy of Deus Ex Algorithmo, where an algorithm presents a solution to the man-made crisis of climate change. Read the article: https://t.co/21rK8NAwo0

Contemporary Literature

Free to read for 1 week: "Exile and Freedom in Jeanette Winterson's THE PASSION: Venice, the British Inner Cities, and the Cultural Politics of Disenfranchisement" by Alexander Beaumont #FreeArticleFriday https://t.co/rz9Jml00b9

Contemporary Literature

Caren Irr reviews recent #ecocriticism by @StacyAlaimo @a_j_dawson @GhoshAmitav @uheise @ShelleyStreeby. Though climate change is global, these books argue that #CliFi should depict the particularities of place, weather, & identity in its imagined futures. https://t.co/CgdCOsMUmM