Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English

Herausgeber: Aliaga-Lavrijsen, Jessica; María Yebra-Pertusa, José

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 545g
• ISBN-13: 9780367188610
• ISBN-10: 0367188619
• Artikelnr.: 56228376

Autorenporträt

Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen is Lecturer in English at the Centro Universitario de la Defensa Zaragoza in Spain. José M. Yebra is Lecturer in English at the University of Zaragoza in Spain.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1. TRANSMODERNITY: A PARADIGM SHIFT 1. The Crossroads of
Transmodernity
2. 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