Transcending the Postmodern: The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm

ISBN-13: 9781032237879 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 266 str.

Susana Onega; Jean-Michel Ganteau

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"This book stands out as an unyielding and timely repositioning of paradigms in the domains of philosophy, aesthetics, literary criticism and cultural theory through the lens of contemporary literature in English…the ten chapters of the book succeed in producing a close view of how themes such as postcolonialism, subalternity, eco-criticism, feminist criticism, etc. fall into the transmodern pattern." Sorin Cazacu, University of Craiova, British and American Studies

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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