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Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen

Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English By Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen

Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English by Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen

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This book 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, and Sebastian Barry.

Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English Summary

Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English by Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen

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.

About Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen

Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen is Lecturer in English at the Centro Universitario de la Defensa Zaragoza in Spain.

Jose M. Yebra is Lecturer in English at the University of Zaragoza in Spain.

Table of Contents

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

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NLS9781032241340
9781032241340
1032241349
Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English by Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen
Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen
Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
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Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2021-12-13
266
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