Full Description
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.
Contents
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
