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基本説明
Advocating a planetary approach to contemporary literature, this critical text examines eight novels from eight cultures.
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In an age of world citizenship, literary scholarship is focusing increasingly on texts which communicate effectively over cultural lines. Advocating a planetary approach to contemporary literature, this critical text examines eight novels from eight cultures. The writers discussed are Julian Barnes, Magda Szabo, Abraham B. Yehoshua, Ian McEwan, W.G. Sebald, Murakami Haruki, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Azar Nafisi. Focusing on the authors' encouragement to meditate on life's most pressing issues, the essays here invite us to reevaluate postmodernism as a current category.
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
For a Planetary Culture
Transcultural Narratives
Through the Green Line
Around Postmodernism
After 9/11
Beyond Postmodernism
The Dialectics Between Words and Reality
Narratives of Responsibility
Morals as Transgression
1. Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot (1984)
Relics of the Past
Rethinking History
The Language of Parrots
Avatars of Truth
2. Magda Szabó, The Door (1987)
Behind the Door
Emotions, Thought and Ethics
An Epic of Emotions
Against Orthodoxy
From Ethics to Aesthetics
The Tragedy of Betrayal
3. Abraham B. Yehoshua, Mr. Mani (1990)
Back to the Bible
The Shadow of the Akedah
Looking for a Father
Escaping from History
The Other Within
4. Ian McEwan, Atonement (2001)
The Dangers of the Imagination
Eroticism and Forgery
Night into Nightmare
War Hells
Criminal and Mourner
A Book on Books
5. W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz (2001)
Narratives of Exile
Architectures of Suffering
Mirroring Lives
Ghosts of Memory
On the Verge of the Abyss
6. Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (2002)
Rewriting the Enigma of Oedipus
Life on the Shore
The Possible Story of Miss Saeki
Nakata versus Johnnie Walker
Into the Labyrinth
7. Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
One Novel, Two Narratives
Heart of Darkness
Beyond the Tragic
Blindness and Insight
Postmemory Novels
8. Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003)
Back to Tehran
Life in Black
The Politics and Poetics of Identity
Narratives of the Iranian Diaspora
A Heated Critical Debate
Language and Democracy
9. Conclusion
Traveling with Mr. Bean
Bearing Witness
Inner Frontiers
Narratives and Remediation
Grasping Complexity
Notes
Bibliography
Index
