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Novel, 2009
The conventional wisdom that contemporary fiction has little use for the nation cannot explain the plurality of recent novels that attend to states in crisis. To detail the effects of state collapse is at the very least to insist on the state's continued relevance to the form. This fiction of failure also has a stake in the state's future.
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The conventional wisdom that contemporary fiction has little use for the nation cannot explain the plurality of recent novels that attend to states in crisis. To detail the effects of state collapse is at the very least to insist on the state's continued relevance to the form. This fiction of failure also has a stake in the state's future.
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Energy Crisis --- Fact or Fiction
IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 1974SOME political pundits suggest that the energy crisis is a political conspiracy to cover up the other difficulties confronting the administration. Others suggest that it is a business conspiracy to drive up prices. There are still others who believe it to be the natural evolution of our affluent society.
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Undercity Fiction and the Crisis of Urbanization
2023Chapter 4 explores the role of popular fiction from Southern nations like India in reaffirming the neoliberal script for a global audience. It closely examines Indian writer Vikas Swarup’s 2005 novel, Q&A together with its Oscar-winning adaptation, Slumdog Millionaire (Dir.
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Speculative Fiction, Curriculum Studies, and Crisis
2019Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS), Vol 13 No 2 (2019)
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Beur Fiction and the Banlieue Crisis
2012Geographically speaking, the French banlieues a problemes offer a prime example of the kind of emergent, interstitial spaces discussed in the introductory chapter. Despite the periodic upsurges of interest in the low-income, ethnically mixed banlieues surrounding France’s major metropolises (which tend to follow on the periodic upsurges of violence ...
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Part Two: Fictionalizing the Financial Crisis
2016This study is concerned with two main questions: how to enable a dialogue between the financial sector and the American civil society and how to represent the unrepresentable, i.e. virtual money. Cosmopolis employs the analogy between money and art to illustrate the changes in the nature of money and the economy as a result of the ‘information age ...
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Regime Crisis in Indonesia: Facts, Fiction, Predictions
Asian Survey, 1981POLITICS IN General Soeharto's New Order over the past decade have been increasingly analyzed in terms of latent or impending crises threatening the survival of the regime. The list of advertised apocalyptic crises was swelled in May and June 1980 by news that a "constitutional coup d'etat" had been attempted, accompanied by plans to assassinate the ...
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The Crisis of Scale in Contemporary Fiction
2020The Crisis of Scale in Contemporary Fiction studies how globalization has transformed our relationship with scale and creates a problem of representation in fiction. After the Second World War, new geopolitical, economic, cultural, and technological developments radically changed the form of existing spaces such as the nation-state, while producing new
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