Representing Political Conflict

How is political conflict directly represented in novels? (About this list: a paragraph describing the thinking behind this list)

Primary Texts:

Tahar Ben Jelloun. *The Sacred Night. (1987, Morrocco)

J.M.Coetzee. *Disgrace. (1999, South Africa)

Najat El-Hachmi. El último patriarca. (2008, Morrocco)

Buchi Emecheta. Second Class Citizen. (1974, Nigeria)

Cristina Garcia. Monkey Hunting. (1994, Cuba)

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga. SAB. (1841, Cuba)

Jhumpa Lahiri. *The Namesake. (2003, India)

Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Matigari. (1987, Kenya)

W.G. Sebald. The Emigrants. (1996, Germany)

Helena María Viramontes. Their DogsCame with Them. (2007, United States)

Secondary Texts:

Fredric Jameson. “OnInterpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act” in The Political Unconscious.

Edward W. Said. Chapters on Conrad and Austen in Culture and Imperialism.

György Lukács. *“TheClassical Form of Historical Novel” in The Historical Novel.