Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction [Hardcover]

This book focuses on the imaginary construction and deconstruction of human communities in modern and contemporary fiction. Drawing on recent theoretical debate on the notion of community (Nancy, Blanchot, Badiou, Esposito), this collection examines narratives by Joyce, Mansfield, Davies, Naipaul, DeLillo, Atwood and others.Introduction 1. Organic and Unworked Communities in James Joyce's The Dead; Pilar Villar Arg?iz 2. 'Two Grinning Puppets Jigging Away in Nothingness:' Symbolism and the Community of Lovers in Katherine Mansfield's Short Fiction; Gerardo Rodr?guez Salas 3. 'A Panegyric Preached Over an Empty Coffin': Waugh, or, the Inevitable End of Community; Juli?n Jim?nez Heffernan 4. 'Being involved:' Community and Commitment in Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Paula Mart?n Salv?n 5. Doomed to Walk the Night: Ghostly Communities and Promises in the Novels of Alex La Guma; Mar?a J. L?pez 6. The Secret of Robertson Davies' Cornish Communities; Mercedes D?az Due?as 7. When Strangers Are Never At Home: A Communitarian Study of Janet Frame's The Carpathians; Gerardo Rodr?guez Salas 8. Communal 'Openness' to an Irreducible Outside: The Inoperative Community in Edna O'Brien's Short Fiction; Pilar Villar Arg?iz 9. 'A Political Anxiety:' Naipaul, or the Unlikely Beginning of Community; Juli?n Jim?nez Heffernan 10. 'Longing on a Large Scale:' Models of Communitarian Reconstitution in Don DeLillo's Fiction; Paula Mart?n Salv?n 11. 'I Am Not a Herald of Community:' Communities of Contagion and Touching in The Letters of J.M. Coetzee; Mar?a J. L?pez 12. Immortality and Immunity in Margaret Atwood's Futuristic Dystopias; Mercedes D?az Due?asPilar Villar Arg?iz, University of Granada, SpainMercedes D?az Due?as, University of Granada, SpainMar?a J. L?pez, University of C?rdoba, Spain