Nonhuman Presence and Ontological Instability in Twenty-First Century New York Fiction

Lieven Ameel

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Nonhuman Presence and Ontological Instability in Twenty-First Century New York Fiction

Lieven Ameel

History, Philosophy and Literary Studies

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This article explores ontological instability in three contemporary New York novels. Drawing on Brian McHale’s Postmodernist Fiction and on the concept of the fold as developed by Gilles Deleuze, it examines Teju Cole’s Open City (2011), Jonathan Lethem’s Chronic City (2009), and Ben Lerner’s 10:04 (2014) and looks, in particular, at how occurrences of nonhuman presence and menacing weather conditions threaten the ontological stability of the narrated storyworld.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Narrating Nonhuman Spaces
Subtitle of host publication	Form, Story, and Experience Beyond Anthropocentrism
Editors	Marco Caracciolo, Marlene Karlsson Marcussen, David Rodriguez
Publisher	Routledge
Pages	71-88
ISBN (Electronic)	9781003181866
ISBN (Print)	9781032021010
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003181866-7
Publication status	Published - 2021
Publication type	A3 Book chapter

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Ameel, L. (2021). Nonhuman Presence and Ontological Instability in Twenty-First Century New York Fiction. In M. Caracciolo, M. Karlsson Marcussen, & D. Rodriguez (Eds.), Narrating Nonhuman Spaces: Form, Story, and Experience Beyond Anthropocentrism (pp. 71-88). (Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003181866-7

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Nonhuman Presence and Ontological Instability in Twenty-First Century New York Fiction. / Ameel, Lieven.
Narrating Nonhuman Spaces: Form, Story, and Experience Beyond Anthropocentrism. ed. / Marco Caracciolo; Marlene Karlsson Marcussen; David Rodriguez. Routledge, 2021. p. 71-88 (Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment).

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