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"""This is tour de force Marxist literary analysis, reading aesthetic form in relation to global economic transformation with both world-systemic foundations and local specificity. Waller links transformations in literary form in Mozambique and Angola to the passage from colonial capitalism to postcolonial socialism to neoliberalism; makes a case for world-systemic method as a mode of investigation with roots in the economic history of southern Africa; and revives “registration” as a key term in Marxist analysis of literature, as texts figure social reality in aesthetic forms that always exceed mere reflection. It is a rare work of scholarship that can unify historicized theory, rigorous method, and meticulous literary analysis—Genres of Transition does it. It has changed the way I think about how to study literature."" Professor Sarah Brouillette, Carleton University ""Attentive to detail and boldly capacious in its world-systemic approach, Thomas Waller’s Genres of Transition brings the literatures of Mozambique and Angola to bear on central debates in literary criticism today. It is an impressive piece of scholarship: meticulously researched and argued with nuance, we encounter here a significant new voice in comparative postcolonial studies."" Professor Stefan Helgesson, Stockholm University"

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Thomas Waller is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin.

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