{"product_id":"literature-at-the-end-of-history-isbn-9781839768439","title":"Literature at the End of History","description":"\u003cb\u003eOn the politics of literature: how writers create the world\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePankaj Mishra beautifully demonstrates, using examples from all over the world, an important and lately neglected truth: literature is inseparable from its social and political context. It is a mode of social enquiry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough a sequence of portraits, Mishra introduces us to writers and how life and literature informs their political evolution. He shows Edward Said's multiple selves, forged between Palestine and the US, and witness the impact of the Six-Day War on his writing about colonialism, Palestine and the politics of identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe also see the improvisations and distortions imposed by colonial rule and immigration to the West on two very different writers: R.K. Narayan and V.S. Naipaul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiterature at the End of History also explores the underground literary culture of Palestinian Israelis, the trajectory of Chinese intellectuals through the twentieth century, the modern literary cultures of Turkey and Egypt. It assesses the American literary response to the 9\/11 attacks; explores the postmodernism of Susan Sontag, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, Jennifer Egan and David Foster Wallace; underlines the rediscovery of class war in America by Elizabeth Strout’s fiction; and examines, through the cult of Barack Obama as highbrow reader and writer, the fashionable new idea of literature as a generator of empathy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGlobal in scope, and informed by political and intellectual as well as literary history, this book is Pankaj Mishra at his majestic best.\u003cb\u003ePankaj Mishra\u003c\/b\u003e is the multi-award-winning author of numerous books, most recently \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Anger: A History of the Present\u003c\/i\u003e. He writes literary and political essays for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBloomberg View\u003c\/i\u003e, among other American, British, and Indian publications. His work has also appeared in the \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCommon Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOutlook\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHarper’s\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48532164542693,"sku":"NP9781839768439","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781839768439.jpg?v=1773182900","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/literature-at-the-end-of-history-isbn-9781839768439","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}