{"product_id":"anglophone-verse-novels-as-gutter-texts-postcolonial-literature-and-the-politics-of-gaps-paperback","title":"Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts: Postcolonial Literature and the Politics of Gaps - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDirk Wiemann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts\u003c\/i\u003e draws on the notion of the 'gutter' in graphic narratives - the gap between panels that a reader has to imaginatively fill to generate narrative sequence - to analyse the largely overlooked literary form of the verse novel. Marked at all levels by the tense constellation of segment and sequence, and a conspicuously 'gappy' texture, verse novels offer productive alternatives to the dominant prose novel in contemporary fiction, where a similar 'gappiness' has become a hallmark, as illustrated by the loosely interlaced multi-strand plot structures of influential 'world novels' (Bola?o, Mitchell, Powers). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe verse novel is a form particularly prolific in the postcolonial world and among diasporic or minoritarian writers in the Global North. This study concentrates on two of the most prominent areas in which verse novels distinguish themselves from the prose novel to read texts by Derek Walcott, Anne Carson, Bernardine Evaristo, Patience Agbabi and others: In 'planetary' verse novels from the Caribbean, Canada, Samoa and Hawai'i, the central trope of the volcano evokes a world in constant un\/making; while post-national verse novels, particularly in Britain, modify the established paradigms of imagined communities. Dirk Wiemann's study speculates whether the resurgence of verse novels correlates with the apprehension of inhabiting a world that has become unpredictable and dangerous but also promising: a 'post-prosaic' world.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDirk Wiemann\u003c\/b\u003e is Chair in English Literature at University of Potsdam, Germany. He is author of \u003ci\u003eGenres of Modernity: Contemporary Indian Novels in English\u003c\/i\u003e (2008) and \u003ci\u003ePostcolonial Literatures in English: An Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e (2019, with Anke Bartels, Lars Eckstein and Nicole Waller), and editor of numerous collections, including \u003ci\u003ePostcolonial Justice\u003c\/i\u003e (2017, with Anke Bartels, Lars Eckstein and Nicole Waller).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 23, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52704123191603,"sku":"9781501399541","price":78.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/1OCOMdDJQ49781501399541.webp?v=1763348252","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/anglophone-verse-novels-as-gutter-texts-postcolonial-literature-and-the-politics-of-gaps-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}