Community in twentieth-century fiction

Edited by
Paula Martín Salván, Gerardo Rodríguez Salas, Julian Jiménez Heffernan

Palgrave Macmillan

2013

Abstract

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.