In an age of world citizenship, literary scholarship is focusing increasingly on texts which communicate effectively over cultural lines. Advocating a planetary approach to contemporary literature, this critical text examines eight novels from eight cultures. The writers discussed are Julian Barnes, Magda Szabo, Abraham B. Yehoshua, Ian McEwan, W.G. Sebald, Murakami Haruki, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Azar Nafisi. Focusing on the authors' encouragement to meditate on life's most pressing issues, the essays here invite us to reevaluate postmodernism as a current category.
In an age of world citizenship, literary scholarship is focusing increasingly on texts which communicate effectively over cultural lines. Advocating a planetary approach to contemporary literature, this critical text examines eight novels from eight cultures. The writers discussed are Julian Barnes, Magda Szabo, Abraham B. Yehoshua, Ian McEwan, W.G. Sebald, Murakami Haruki, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Azar Nafisi. Focusing on the authors' encouragement to meditate on life's most pressing issues, the essays here invite us to reevaluate postmodernism as a current category.
Maurizio Ascari is a senior lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bologna. He has published broadly on crime fiction, the process of canon formation, world literature and travel writing.
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Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction For a Planetary Culture Transcultural Narratives Through the Green Line Around Postmodernism After 9/11 Beyond Postmodernism The Dialectics Between Words and Reality Narratives of Responsibility Morals as Transgression 1. Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot (1984) Relics of the Past Rethinking History The Language of Parrots Avatars of Truth 2. Magda Szabó, The Door (1987) Behind the Door Emotions, Thought and Ethics An Epic of Emotions Against Orthodoxy From Ethics to Aesthetics The Tragedy of Betrayal 3. Abraham B. Yehoshua, Mr. Mani (1990) Back to the Bible The Shadow of the Akedah Looking for a Father Escaping from History The Other Within 4. Ian McEwan, Atonement (2001) The Dangers of the Imagination Eroticism and Forgery Night into Nightmare War Hells Criminal and Mourner A Book on Books 5. W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz (2001) Narratives of Exile Architectures of Suffering Mirroring Lives Ghosts of Memory On the Verge of the Abyss 6. Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (2002) Rewriting the Enigma of Oedipus Life on the Shore The Possible Story of Miss Saeki Nakata versus Johnnie Walker Into the Labyrinth 7. Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated (2002) One Novel, Two Narratives Heart of Darkness Beyond the Tragic Blindness and Insight Postmemory Novels 8. Azar Näsi, Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003) Back to Tehran Life in Black The Politics and Poetics of Identity Narratives of the Iranian Diaspora A Heated Critical Debate Language and Democracy 9. Conclusion Traveling with Mr. Bean Bearing Witness Inner Frontiers Narratives and Remediation Grasping Complexity Notes Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction For a Planetary Culture Transcultural Narratives Through the Green Line Around Postmodernism After 9/11 Beyond Postmodernism The Dialectics Between Words and Reality Narratives of Responsibility Morals as Transgression 1. Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot (1984) Relics of the Past Rethinking History The Language of Parrots Avatars of Truth 2. Magda Szabó, The Door (1987) Behind the Door Emotions, Thought and Ethics An Epic of Emotions Against Orthodoxy From Ethics to Aesthetics The Tragedy of Betrayal 3. Abraham B. Yehoshua, Mr. Mani (1990) Back to the Bible The Shadow of the Akedah Looking for a Father Escaping from History The Other Within 4. Ian McEwan, Atonement (2001) The Dangers of the Imagination Eroticism and Forgery Night into Nightmare War Hells Criminal and Mourner A Book on Books 5. W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz (2001) Narratives of Exile Architectures of Suffering Mirroring Lives Ghosts of Memory On the Verge of the Abyss 6. Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (2002) Rewriting the Enigma of Oedipus Life on the Shore The Possible Story of Miss Saeki Nakata versus Johnnie Walker Into the Labyrinth 7. Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated (2002) One Novel, Two Narratives Heart of Darkness Beyond the Tragic Blindness and Insight Postmemory Novels 8. Azar Näsi, Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003) Back to Tehran Life in Black The Politics and Poetics of Identity Narratives of the Iranian Diaspora A Heated Critical Debate Language and Democracy 9. Conclusion Traveling with Mr. Bean Bearing Witness Inner Frontiers Narratives and Remediation Grasping Complexity Notes Bibliography Index
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