Renewal of interest in imperialism and literary texts about imperialism - Examines a range of fiction and criticism as it pertains to colonialism, the North/South engagement and contemporary Third World politics. The concluding chapters approach literature from the outside, considering its apparent silence on economics and realpolitik, and assessing the utility of postcolonial reconceptualization. This is paired with an analysis of African literary texts which takes as its theme the relationship between culture and politics.
It then examines the personal as a metaphor for the political in fiction depicting the imperial connection between Britain and India. The book begins by contrasting the treatment of cross-cultural relations in political studies and literary texts. A wide range of fiction and criticism is examined as it pertains to colonialism, in North/South engagement and contemporary Third World politics. It addresses the value of fiction to an understanding of the imperial relationship between the West and Asia and Africa. The Fiction of Imperialism attempts to promote dialogue between international relations and postcolonialism. This book examines a range of fiction and criticism as it pertains to colonialism, the North/South engagement and contemporary Third World politics. It will be of interest to scholars of International Relations, Political Theory, Historiography, Cultural Theory, and Literary Studies and Criticism. The volume challenges the autonomy of academic international relations as an exclusive purveyor of serious knowledge about world affairs and calls for active engagement with literary art. Artistic narratives surface as real pedagogical lessons and exercises in political activism. Social-scientific narratives emerge as exercises in rhetoric: the art and politics of persuasion through language.
Throughout, the distinction between factual and fictional representations of international relations breaks down. Chapters analyzing factual literature flesh out its unacknowledged inventions, while those dedicated to fiction explain its political roots and agenda. Employing narrative theory developed by Hayden White, the author examines factual and fictional accounts of world affairs ranging from the anarchy narrative, central to mainstream international relations research, to novels by Don DeLillo and Milan Kundera. It has two symmetrical goals: to illuminate the nonempirical fictions of factual international relations literature, and to highlight the real factual inspirations and implications of contemporary international relations fiction. The Poetics of International Politics Book Review:Ī cutting-edge contribution to the aesthetic turn in international relations scholarship, this book exposes the role of poetic techniques in constituting the reality of international politics. This book will be of interest to students of IR theory, critical security studies, Cold War studies, gender studies and Asian studies. The aim of the book is not to refute the official findings the point is to unpack complex dynamics surrounding truth-more specifically how the official account has been executed as ‘the’ truth-based on a feminist-informed investigation. Finally, the author goes on to explore why this case has been so difficult to study openly and thoroughly. Second, the book examines how gender, pain and truth operate or interact in the case of the Korean spy and how this observation can strengthen feminist IR in terms of intersectionality. First, it investigates the way in which fiction-writing can become a method for dealing with data problems and contingency in IR. Fictional International Relations has three main objectives. The case of the woman Korean secret agent- who reportedly bombed a South Korean plane (Korean Airlines (KAL) Flight 858) under the instruction from the North Korean leadership to disrupt the Seoul Olympic Games- is chosen to serve as an effective example of fictional IR and feminist IR scholarship, which can be investigated through the research puzzles concerning gender, pain and truth. This takes the view that a dominant narrative of events might be reconstructed as a different kind of story, once events are placed within a wider temporal approach.
Fictional imagination and feminist IR encourage one to go beyond conventional or standard ways of thinking it reshapes taken-for-granted interpretations and assumptions. This book proposes the idea of fictional International Relations (IR) and engages with feminist IR by contextualising the case of a woman spy in Korea in the Cold War.
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