Hari Kunzru

Kristian Shaw, Sara Upstone, Kristian Shaw, Sara Upstone

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781526155191
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This book is the first edited collection to focus on the work of contemporary author Hari Kunzru. It contains major new essays on each of his novels – The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions, Gods Without Men, White Tears and Red Pill – as well as his short fiction and non-fiction writings. The collection situates Kunzru's work within current debates regarding postmodernism, postcolonialism, and post-postmodernism, and examines how Kunzru's work is central to major thematic concerns of contemporary writing including whiteness, national identity, Britishness, cosmopolitanism, music, space, memory, art practice, trauma, Brexit, immigration, covid-19, and populist politics. The book engages with current debates regarding the politics of publishing of ethnic writers, examining how Kunzru has managed to shape a career in resistance of narrow labelling where many other writers have struggled to achieve long-term recognition.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Series editors’ preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction ‘Adding up to an unknown’: the elusive fictions of Hari Kunzru
• 1 ‘Walking into Whiteness’: The Impressionist and the routes of empire
• 2 ‘It was the revenge of the uncontrollable world’: Transmission and COVID-19
• 3 Turning the tide, or turning around in My Revolutions
• 4 Subjectivity at its limits: fugitive community in Kunzru’s short stories
• 5 The fiction of every-era/no-era: Gods Without Men as ‘translit’
• 6 Eyes, ears, head, memory, heart: transglossic rhythms in Memory Palace and Twice Upon a Time
• 7 ‘The ghost is him’: the echoes of racism, non-being and haunting in White Tears
• 8 ‘Food for the wolves’: the rise of the alt-right in Red Pill
• 9 ‘In the wake of all that’: a conversation with Hari Kunzru
• Index