1st Edition

Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English

    266 Pages
    by Routledge

    266 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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.