The Language of Fiction in a World of Pain: Reading Politics As Paradox (New Cultural Studies Series)

This book offers new and provocative readings of Milan Kundera's Book of Laughter and Forgetting , J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and Life and Times of Michael K , selected short fiction of Nadine Gordimer and Grace Paley, Ibuse Masuji's Black Rain , John Hawkes's Travesty , and others. A survey of contemporary attitudes about the relationship of literature and politics is a walk in a mine field.