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Transcending the postmodern : the singular response of literature to the transmodern paradigm

edited by Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteau

（Routledge studies in contemporary literature, 47）

Routledge, 2020

: hbk

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Doshisha University Library (Imadegawa)

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Transcending the Postmodern: The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm gathers an introduction and ten chapters concerned with the issue of Transmodernity as addressed by and presented in contemporary novels hailing from various parts of the English-speaking world. Building on the theories of Transmodernity propounded by Rosa Maria Rodriguez Magda, Enrique Dussel, Marc Luyckx Ghisi and Irena Ateljevic, inter alia, it investigates the links between Transmodernity and such categories as Postmodernity, Postcolonialism and Transculturalism with a view to help define a new current in contemporary literary production. The chapters either follow the main theoretical drives of the transmodern paradigm or problematise them. In so doing, they branch out towards various issues that have come to inspire contemporary novelists, among which: the presence of the past, the ascendance of new technologies, multiculturalism, terrorism, and also vulnerability, interdependence, solidarity and ecology in a globalised context. In so doing, it interrogates the ethics, aesthetics and politics of the contemporary novel in English.

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Introduction: Transcending the Postmodern Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteau PART I The Poetics of Transmodernity The Transmodern Poetics of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas: Generic Hybridity, Narrative Embedding and Transindividuality Susana Onega Transnational Latino/a Literature and the Transmodern Meta-Narrative: An Alternative Reading of Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Sara Villamarin-Freire The Novel of Ideas at the Crossroads of Transmodernity: Tom McCarthy's Satin Island Angelo Monaco PART II Ethical Perceptions Problematising the Transmodern: Jon McGregor's Ethics of Consideration Jean-Michel Ganteau Using Transculturalism to Understand the Transmodern Paradigm: Representations of Identity in Zadie Smith's White Teeth and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah Matthias Stephan Transmodern Mythopoesis in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant Laura Colombino PART III Migrancy and the Possibility of Re-enchantment A Transmodern Approach to Post-9/11 Australia: Richard Flanagan's The Unknown Terrorist as a Narrative of the Limit Barbara Arizti 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 Transcorporeality, Fluidity and Transanimality in Monique Roffey's Novel Archipelago Julia Kuznetski A Transmodern Approach to Biology in Naomi Mitchison's Memoirs of a Spacewoman Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen

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