TY - BOOK ID - 77879681 TI - Contemporary literature and the state AU - Hart, Matthew AU - Hansen, Jim PY - 2008 SN - 0299232433 9780299232436 9780299232443 0299232441 PB - Madison, Wis. University of Wisconsin Press DB - UniCat KW - Literature, Modern KW - Romanticism KW - Modern literature KW - Arts, Modern KW - Political aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77879681 AB - Contemporary Literature and the State challenges the critical opposition between the monolithic state and the individual artist. The volume collects essays on writers as different as Samuel Beckett and Ngozi Adichie and covers historical and geographical contexts from Yorkshire to Singapore, San Francisco to Cape Town. Featuring new and established critical voices, Contemporary Literature and the State is an important new contribution to debates about the politics of literature, coming at a time when state power appears both more arbitrary and more necessary than ever. ER -