Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Av Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen, José María Yebra-Pertusa, Jose Maria Yebra-Pertusa

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Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English offers a constructive dialogue on the concept of the transmodern, focusing on the works by very different contemporary authors from all over the world, such as: Chimanda Ngozi Adichie, Margaret Atwood, Sebastian Barry, A. S. Byatt, Tabish Khair, David Mitchell, Alice Munroe, Harry Parker, Caryl Phillips, Richard Rodriguez, Alan Spence, Tim Winton and Kenneth White. The volume offers a thorough questioning of the concept of the transmodern, as well as an informed insight into the future formal and thematic development of literatures in English.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-12-13
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt362 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
Antal sidor266
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032241340

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Introduction Part 1. TRANSMODERNITY: A PARADIGM SHIFT 1. The Crossroads of Transmodernity2. Transmodernity, Capital and Queer Utopian Critique: Days Without End 3. Oulipian Games, Transpersonality and the Logic of Potentiality in David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten Part 2. TRANSMODERN ETHICS 4. Refracting the Transmodern: Harry Parker’s Anatomy of a Soldier 5. From Egology to Ecology: Elements of the Transmodern in Tim Winton’s Eyrie Part 3. TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES AND SPACES 6. In the Narrative Fiction of a Global Society Closed Spaces No Longer Exist 7. David Mitchell’s Slade House and the Non-Place of Transmodernism 8. The Aftermath of Terrorism in the Transmodern City as Reflected in Tabish Khair’s How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position Part 4. TRANSMODERN POETICS OF THE (SPIRITUAL) SELF 9. Signs of Transmodern Relationships in Richard Rodriguez’s Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography 10. Geopoetics and the Poetry of Consciousness: A Transmodern Perspective Part 5. TRANSCULTURAL FEMININITIES 11. The Intimate-Universal: Juliet/Julieta 12. Adichie’s ‘The American Embassy’ and ‘Jumping Monkey Hill’: A Transmodern Response to Transmodernity Part 6. CONCLUSION 13. Some Concluding Remarks