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This is the first edited collection on Hari Kunzru. With new individual essays on each of Kunzru's novels as well as his short fiction and creative non-fiction, the book situates his writing within current debates on contemporary literature, and in relation to key historical events such as Brexit, the election of Trump, and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Graphic design (Typography) --- Kunzru, Hari, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- British. --- Contemporary. --- Cosmopolitan. --- Global. --- Kunzru. --- Literature. --- Novel. --- Postcolonial. --- Postmodern. --- Twenty-first century.

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"Technological innovation has long threatened the printed book, but ultimately, most digital alternatives to the codex have been onscreen replications. While a range of critics have debated the benefits and dangers of this media technology, contemporary and avant-garde writers have offered more nuanced considerations. Taking up works from Andy Warhol, Kevin Young, Don DeLillo, and Hari Kunzru, Archival Fictions considers how these writers have constructed a speculative history of media technology through formal experimentation. Although media technologies have determined the extent of what can be written, recorded, and remembered in the immediate aftermath of print's hegemony, Paul Benzon argues that literary form provides a vital means for critical engagement with the larger contours of media history. Drawing on approaches from media poetics, film studies, and the digital humanities, this interdisciplinary study demonstrates how authors who engage technology through form continue to imagine new roles for print literature across the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries"--

Literature and technology. --- Literary form. --- Literature --- Form (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy. --- Young, Kevin, --- DeLillo, Don. --- Kunzru, Hari, --- Literary form --- Literature and technology --- Philosophy

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A fresh set of concerns face the twenty-first century British novelist. In this study of the four key novelists Zadie Smith, Nadeem Aslam, Hari Kunzru and David Mitchell, the the changes in narrative approaches and critical directions of a new post-1989 fiction are explored.Close readings of the writers are informed by a range of contemporary theorists, critics and commentators to reveal the emphases of twenty-first century fiction. Terror, fear, consumerism, multinationalism, and corporatism: the terms circulating in culture and social networks are evident in Smith's faith in ethical living, Aslam's consideration of multiculturalism, the novels Kunzru builds around the politics of identity and in the importance Mitchell places on the interconnectedness of human life. By putting the emergence of a new British literary dynamic in the context of ethical as well as global contexts, this study analyzes the transformed fictional perceptions of a world no longer defined by the stand off of super powers.

English fiction --- Ethics in literature --- Aesthetics in literature --- Multiculturalism in literature --- History and criticism --- Roman anglais --- Morale --- Roman --- Thèmes, motifs --- Dans la littérature --- Esthétique --- Smith, Zadie, --- Aslam, Nadeem, --- Kunzru, Hari, --- Mitchell, David, --- 820 "20" --- Engelse literatuur--21e eeuw. Periode 2000-2099 --- 820 "20" Engelse literatuur--21e eeuw. Periode 2000-2099 --- English literature --- Aslam, Nadeem --- Dans la littérature. --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Esthétique. --- Mitchell, David --- Smith, Zadie --- Kunzru, Hari --- English fiction - 21st century - History and criticism