1st Edition
Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English
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.