Politics and Literature at the Turn of the Millennium

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Politics and Literature

Chapter 2. The "Original Position" in Jose Saramagio's Blindness

Chapter 3. Absurdity and Revolt in Cormac McCarthy's The Road

Chapter 4. The Bystander's Tale: Gil Courtemanche's A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

Chapter 5. Fiction and the Study of Slums: Anosh Irani's The Cripple and His Tailsmans

Chapter 6. Narrative and Memory and Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore, Gunter Glass' Crabwalk and Andre Brink's The Rights of Desire

Chapter 7. The Politics of Victimhood in John le Carre's Absolute Friends

Chapter 8. The Quest for Identity in Sayed Kashua's Let it Be Morning

Chapter 9. Political Escapism in Contemporary Israel: David Grossman's To the End of the Land

Chapter 10. Body and Mind in Margaret Atwood's Orynx and Crake

Chapter 11. A Canadian Alternative to the Clash of Civilizations: Yann Martel's Life of Pi

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