Transcending the Postmodern : The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature)

Onega, Susana (EDT)/ Ganteau, Jean-Michel (EDT)

Routledge（2020/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780367860554
• DDC分類 823.92093552

Full Description

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 María Rodríguez 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.

Contents

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 Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Sara Villamarín-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
Bárbara Arizti




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






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