Home and Law: Impersonality and Worldlessness in J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus and Jenny Erpenbeck’s Gehen, Ging, Gegangen (2015)
(2019)
Book Chapter
Hartley, D. (2019). Home and Law: Impersonality and Worldlessness in J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus and Jenny Erpenbeck’s Gehen, Ging, Gegangen (2015). In S. Durrant, D. Farrier, L. Stonebridge, E. Cox, & A. Woolley (Eds.), Refugee Imaginaries: Research Across the Humanities. Edinburgh University Press
Dr Daniel Hartley's Outputs (3)
'Dead Letters': Impersonality and the Mourning of World Literature in Ivan Vladislavić's <I>Double Negative (2019)
Journal Article
Hartley, D. (2020). 'Dead Letters': Impersonality and the Mourning of World Literature in Ivan Vladislavić's Double Negative. Interventions, 22(2), 195-211. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801x.2019.1659156In his 2010 novel, Double Negative, South African author Ivan Vladislavić undertakes an ethico-political and literary project of impersonality. Impersonality is understood in four interrelated ways: as an ethos characterized by a paradoxically passio... Read More about 'Dead Letters': Impersonality and the Mourning of World Literature in Ivan Vladislavić's <I>Double Negative.
Keeping it Real: Literary Impersonality under Neoliberalism (2019)
Book Chapter
Hartley, D. (2019). Keeping it Real: Literary Impersonality under Neoliberalism. In S. Deckard, & S. Shapiro (Eds.), World literature, neoliberalism and the culture of discontent (131-155). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05441-0_6This chapter argues that the impersonality of historical capitalism is best conceived as an uneven combination of socio-cultural processes of depersonalization and (re-)personalization. It is within this purview of the longue durée that I shall locat... Read More about Keeping it Real: Literary Impersonality under Neoliberalism.