Transcending the Postmodern (eBook, PDF)

The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm
Redaktion: Onega, Susana; Ganteau, Jean-Michel

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Produktbeschreibung

This book builds on theories of Transmodernity by Rodríguez Magda, Dussel, Luyckx Ghisi and Ateljevic, inter alia. It investigates their links with Postmodernity, Postcolonialism or Transculturalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000060089
• Artikelnr.: 58758517

Autorenporträt

Susana Onega is Professor of English Literature at the University of Zaragoza, (Spain). Jean-Michel Ganteau is Professor of Contemporary British Literature at the University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 (France).CONTRIBUTORSSara Villamarin-Freire, Angelo Monaco, Matthias Stephan, Laura Colombino, Barbara Arizti, Mervew Sarikaya-Sen, Julia Kuznetski, and Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Transcending the Postmodern
Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteau
PART I
The Poetics of Transmodernity
1. The Transmodern Poetics of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas: Generic
Hybridity, Narrative Embedding and Transindividuality
Susana Onega
2. Transnational Latino/a Literature and the Transmodern Meta-Narrative:
An Alternative Reading of Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of
Oscar Wao
Sara Villamarín-Freire
3. The Novel of Ideas at the Crossroads of Transmodernity: Tom
McCarthy's Satin Island
Angelo Monaco
PART II
Ethical Perceptions
4. Problematising the Transmodern: Jon McGregor's Ethics of
Consideration
Jean-Michel Ganteau
5. Using Transculturalism to Understand the Transmodern Paradigm:
Representations of Identity in Zadie Smith's White Teeth and
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah
Matthias Stephan
6. Transmodern Mythopoesis in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant
Laura Colombino
PART III
Migrancy and the Possibility of Re-enchantment
7. A Transmodern Approach to Post-9/11 Australia: Richard Flanagan's
The Unknown Terrorist as a Narrative of the Limit
Bárbara Arizti
8. Diversity, Singularity, Re-Enchantment and Relationality in a
Transmodern World: Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Merve Sarikaya-Sen
PART IV
Perspectives on Biopolitics
9. Transcorporeality, Fluidity and Transanimality in Monique Roffey's
Novel Archipelago
Julia Kuznetski
10. A Transmodern Approach to Biology in Naomi Mitchison's Memoirs of a
Spacewoman
Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen