Global Wallace : David Foster Wallace and World Literature

body of work in relation to five broadly construed geographic territories -- Latin America, Russia, Eastern Europe, France, and Africa -- the book reveals the mechanisms with which Wallace played particular literary traditions off one another, showing how he appropriated vastly different global texts within his own fiction. By expanding the geographic coordinates of Wallace's work in this way, "Global Wallace" reconceptualizes contemporary American fiction, as being embedded within a global exchange of texts and ideas. [Publisher's Text]

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