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

List of contents

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 Sarıkaya-Şen

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

About the author

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).
CONTRIBUTORS
Sara Villamarin-Freire, Angelo Monaco, Matthias Stephan, Laura Colombino, Barbara Arizti, Mervew Sarikaya-Sen, Julia Kuznetski, and Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen

Summary

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.

Additional text

"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

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Michel Ganteau, Susana Onega, Susana Ganteau Onega
• Assisted by: Jean-Michel Ganteau (Editor), Ganteau Jean-Michel (Editor), Susana Onega (Editor), Onega Susana (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.03.2020
• EAN: 9780367860554
• ISBN: 978-0-367-86055-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 21st Century, Political structure & processes, Politics and government, Colonialism and imperialism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Literary studies: from c 2000