Posted on behalf of Dr. Bianca Leggett (University of Evansville). Bianca ran a workshop on writer Hari Kunzru in June and is currently putting together a collection of essays and inviting contributions. It might be worth someone with a comics background approaching 'Memory Palace' (book and exhibition) as a hypercomic. For further details contact her on the email listed below...
We invite you to respond with an abstract which addresses one of these works/ themes: as you might anticipate, some works will inevitably attract more attention than others, so we particularly welcome a focus on more marginal texts. Thoughts on an alternative angle for a chapter will also be considered. Please email abstracts of 400-500 words to Bianca at [log in to unmask] for Thursday 31st July. We anticipate chapters of 6000 words in length.
Kunzru's travel writing/ journalism
The Impressionist
Noise/ short stories elsewhere
Transmission
My Revolutions
Gods Without Men
Memory Palace
Twice Upon a Time
Kunzru on contemporary art (pending publication of Kunzru's work on Ryan Trecartin piece)
Kunzru and the publishing industry/ literary prize culture
Some of the many, many themes which arose during our workshop and interview with Kunzru include:
Transnationalism and the interconnected world
Cosmopolitanism and rootlessness
Rethinking British Asian fiction
Digital culture and identity
Narrative and new media
Literature and the contemporary art world
Changing notions of selfhood
Genre, SF and the figure of the extra-terrestrial
Modernist inheritances
The limitations of British literary fiction
Belatedness
The future of the novel
Authenticity and ethnicity
Neo-reactionary Europeans and the 'Nationalist backlash'
'Speed and slowness': global inequality and travel
The novel, politics and ethics
The author as public figure
Translit and fragmented forms
Found poetry, graffiti and the 21st century flaneur
Making meaning in the 'broken world'
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