Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English

ISBN-13: 9780367188610 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 254 str.

Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen; Jose Maria Yebra-Pertusa

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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