The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms

Margarita Vaysman, Katherine A. Bowers (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

888 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-761064-0 (ISBN)

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Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across different media, from early pictorial art and epic oral narratives, through literature and visual arts, to film, music, and digital media. However, an understanding of what it means to "faithfully represent reality" is not universal; rather, it varies from culture to culture. The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms brings the diversity of global realisms - literary, visual, sonic, dramatic, and digital; Victorian and modernist; socialist, capitalist, magical and marvelous, postcolonial, environmental, and posthuman - to the fore. By foregrounding theories, practices, and forms of realism that are less well-known to Anglophone readers than "classic" realisms, The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms revises the Eurocentric geography of the concept. It offers a broad chronology that overcomes the habitual fixation in studies of realism on the nineteenth century as its starting point and offers, instead, a more flexible timeline of this artistic practice. The Handbook's four sections "Theories of Global Realism," "Practices of Global Realisms," "Global Realisms and the Novel," and "Intermedial Global Realisms" present realism as a transnational, transhistorical, and intermedial global phenomenon. The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms offers a global view of realism through contextualized case studies, showcasing previously underrepresented and marginalized theories, practices, forms, and media of realist cultural production.

Katherine Bowers is Associate Professor of Slavic Studies at the University of British Columbia. Bowers's research considers questions of literary form and genre. Her first monograph, Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic (2022), examines the ways European gothic fiction influenced the development of Russian realism. Her published work spans literary and media studies, digital humanities, and environmental humanities, as well as four co-edited volumes on topics in Russian literary and cultural history. Margarita Vaysman is Associate Professor of Nineteenth-Century Russophone Literature and Thought and Fellow in Russian at New College, University of Oxford. Her first monograph Self-Conscious Realism: Metafiction and the Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel was published in 2021. In 2020, Vaysman co-edited a volume Nineteenth-Century Russian Realism: Society, Knowledge, Narrative , which showcased the new interdisciplinary, inclusive approaches to the Russian realist canon. Her research focuses on literary texts, primarily the realist novel, and history of gender and sexuality.

About the Editors
List of Contributors

1. Global Theories, Chronologies, and Geographies of Realism
Katherine Bowers and Margarita Vaysman

Part I. Theories of Global Realism

2. The Politics of Postcolonial Realism
Meghan Gorman-DaRif

3. Realism and the Subaltern in India
Ulka Anjaria

4. Theorizing Global Realism from Lukács to Climate Crisis Literature
Treasa De Loughry

5. Global Climate Realism in Blue Modern Europe
Anna Barcz

6. Affect and the Global Politics of Emotion in German Realism
Ervin Malakaj

7. Sentimentalism and the Gendered Aesthetics of Global Realisms
Hilde Hoogenboom

8. Global Disability Studies and Realist Representation
Hannah Thompson

9. Realism and Race in the Literature of the Global Hispanic Empire
Julia Haeyoon Chang

10. Digital Humanities and Literary Realism
Daniil Skorinkin and Boris Orekhov

11. Indigi-realism and "Aye!"sthetics
Renae Watchman

Part II. Practices of Global Realism

12. Embodied Realisms in Australian Aboriginal Art
Liz Cameron

13. Realism and the Visual Arts in France and Japan
Marika Takanishi Knowles

14. The Work of Realism, Shin, and Materia Medica in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Maki Fukuoka

15. Victorian Realisms in the Age of Global Trade
Jessica R. Valdez

16. Global Realism and the Gothic Genre
Katherine Bowers

17. Ottoman Armenian Visual Realism and Social Reform
Vazken Khatchig Davidian

18. Caribbean Diasporic Marvelous Realism
María Alonso Alonso

19. Realist Drama as World Drama
Ning Wang

20. Considering Gay Realisms in Canadian Theater
Conrad Alexandrowicz

21. Realism, Neorealism, and Hyperrealism in Argentine Cinema
Juli A. Kroll

22. World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism
Lúcia Nagib

Part III. Global Realisms and The Novel

23. Realism and Novel Ethics
Christopher S. Weinberger

24. The Socialist Realist Novel in Central Asia
Chris Fort

25. Capitalist Realism in the Arabic Novel
Raya Alraddadi

26. The Global African Novel
Katherine Hallemeier

27. Magic Realism in the African Novel
Ousmane Ngom

28. Realist Physiognomies and the Japanese Modernist Novel
Satoshi Bamba

29. Realism in the Global Age of Modernism in China and the United States
Julia Chan

30. Russian Metafiction and Global Realisms
Margarita Vaysman

Part IV. Intermedial Global Realisms

31. Global Traveling Realisms from Literature to Film
Kate Holland

32. Intermedial Projections from Realism to Naturalism
Robert Singer

33. Narrative Realism and Television
Lisa W. Jacobson and Chloë Kitzinger

34. Journalism and Realist Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France
Edmund Birch

35. Peripheral Realisms, War, and Catastrophe in Contemporary Iraqi Fiction
Modhumita Roy

36. Realism and the Politics of Frequency in Filmmaking
Terri Weissman

37. Documentary Forms and Realist Theater
Lucie Kempf

38. Reality Effects and Oral Modes of Entextualization
Roma Chatterji

39. Computational Realism in the Digital Humanities
Aaron Mauro

40. Transing Holodeck Realism in Video Games
Cody Mejeur

41. Preposterous Realism and Posthuman Aesthetics
Christoph Cox

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.02.2024
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Handbooks
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 236 mm
Gewicht	1633 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	0-19-761064-1 / 0197610641
ISBN-13	978-0-19-761064-0 / 9780197610640
Zustand	Neuware