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Transmodern Literatures in the 21st Century: Of(f) Limits offers an in-depth look into how transmodern literatures in English of the last two decades have been dealing with the phenomenon of the limit. The fifteen chapters that make up the volume examine how geographical, racial, ethnical, sociocultural, generical, ontological, epistemological and other limits are articulated, transgressed and reconfigured in recent narratives by authors writing in a wide variety of transmodern trends such as Afro- and Africanfuturism, Young Adult feminist science fiction, food fiction, air travel fiction, the networked novel and future narratives amongst others. They thereby expose and challenge hierarchised binary dichotomies as Euro- and Anthropocentric exclusionary discursive constructs that have kept non-hegemonic voices off limits. To counter the detrimental effects of the neoliberal grand narrative of globalisation, the chapters as well as the narratives of the limit they analyse emphasise an urgent need for inclusiveness, relationality and communality.
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: Transmodern Literatures Of(f) the Limits
Pilar Royo-Grasa and Claus-Peter Neumann
PART I
Geographical, Racial and Ethnic Limits
1. Mohsin Hamid's Exit West as a Transmodern Narrative of(f) the Limit
Angelo Monaco
2. Otherwise Vancouver in Black Speculative Fiction: from a Dialectic of Conquest to Transmodern Coalitions of Solidarity
Fernando Pérez-García
3. (Writing about) Writing about Limits: Aleksandar Hemon's The Lazarus Project
Chinmaya Lal Thakur
PART II
Limits of the Human
4. 'There Never Was a Wilder Story Imagined': Posthumanist Conceit and Transmodernity in Jeanette Winterson's Frankissstein: A Love Story
Vanja Polić
5. Posthuman identities and the Transmodern Paradigm Through Fairy Tales: Marissa Meyer's "The Little Android"
Sidia Fiorato
6. Special Relativity, Real-Time Communications and Vulnerability in Outer Space and Lauren James's The Loneliest Girl in the Universe
Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen
7. Nnedi Okorafor's Remote Control (2021) and Its Africanfuturist Transmodern Agenda: Harnessing the Past to Understand the Present and Improve the Future
Dolores Herrero
8. Speaking of Fracture: Intercultural Dialogue and the Transmodern Perception of Time and Experience in N.K. Jemisin's The Broken Earth Trilogy
Adriana Lobato
PART III:
Relationality and Community
9. Jon McGregor's Transmodern Ethics of Re-enchantment in If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
Susana Onega
10. Spatialising the Transmodern in Jim Crace's The Melody
Petr Chalupský
11. Intimations of a Life Well Lived: Beyond Food as Metaphor in Inga Simpson's Mr Wigg
Bárbara Arizti
12. Fragility and (Dis-)Connection in David Szalay's Turbulence
María Jesús Martínez
13. Dissolving Limits in Tom McCarthy's Satin Island
Justine Gonneaud
EPILOGUE
The Ultimate Limit—NOW: Future Narratives and the Present Moment as Conversion Point of Potentiality into Actuality
Christoph Bode
Index
