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Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English book cover

1st Edition

Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English

Edited By Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen, José María Yebra-Pertusa Copyright 2019
266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introduction: Transmodern Perspectives on Literature
Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen and José María Yebra-Pertusa

Part 1. TRANSMODERNITY: A PARADIGM SHIFT

1. The Crossroads of Transmodernity
Rosa María Rodríguez-Magda

2. Transmodernity, Capital and Queer Utopian Critique: Days Without End
David Alderson

3. Oulipian Games, Transpersonality and the Logic of Potentiality in David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten
Susana Onega

Part 2. TRANSMODERN ETHICS

4. Refracting the Transmodern: Harry Parker’s Anatomy of a Soldier
Jean-Michel Ganteau

5. From Egology to Ecology: Elements of the Transmodern in Tim Winton’s Eyrie
Bárbara Arizti

Part 3. TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES AND SPACES

6. In the Narrative Fiction of a Global Society Closed Spaces No Longer Exist
Barbara Pushmann-Nalenz

7. David Mitchell’s Slade House and the Non-Place of Transmodernism
Gerd Bayer

8. The Aftermath of Terrorism in the Transmodern City as Reflected in Tabish Khair’s How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position
Dolores Herrero

Part 4. TRANSMODERN POETICS OF THE (SPIRITUAL) SELF

9. Signs of Transmodern Relationships in Richard Rodriguez’s Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography
Aitor Ibarrola

10. Geopoetics and the Poetry of Consciousness: A Transmodern Perspective
Monika Kocot

Part 5. TRANSCULTURAL FEMININITIES

11. The Intimate-Universal: Juliet/Julieta
Marc Amfreville

12. Adichie’s ‘The American Embassy’ and ‘Jumping Monkey Hill’: A Transmodern Response to Transmodernity
Violeta Duce

Part 6. CONCLUSION

13. Some Concluding Remarks
José María Yebra-Pertusa and Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen

Biography

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.

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