Literature and the Global Contemporary

1. The Landowner’s Ghosts: Realism and Financialization in Contemporary Latin American Fiction
Ericka Beckman

2. “Special Period”-izing Cuba: Limits of the Past Perfect
Jonathan Dettman

3. Autonomy After Autonomy, or the Novel Beyond Nation: Roberto Bolaño’s 2666

Emilio Sauri

4. #YOLO
Sarah Brouillette

5. Capitalism’s Long Spiral: Periodicity, Temporality and the Global Contemporary in World Literature
Sharae Deckard

6. The Technical Composition of Conceptualism
Joshua Clover

7. The Multitemporal Contemporary: Colson Whitehead’s Presents
Daniel Grausam

8. Periodizing the Anglophone African Novel: Location(s) in a Transnational Literary Marketplace
Madhu Krishnan

9. Juggling the Dialectic: The Abyss of Politics in Chris Abani’s Fiction
Mitchum Huehls

10. Contemporaneity and Contradiction: Uneven Temporal Development in Bridgett M. Davis’s into the Go-Slow and Okey Ndibe’s Foreign Gods Inc.

Mathias Nilges

Keywords: Literature, Comparative Literature, Contemporary Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature