ABSTRACT

Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English offers a constructive dialogue on the concept of the transmodern, focusing on the works by very different contemporary authors from all over the world, such as: Chimanda Ngozi Adichie, Margaret Atwood, Sebastian Barry, A. S. Byatt, Tabish Khair, David Mitchell, Alice Munroe, Harry Parker, Caryl Phillips, Richard Rodriguez, Alan Spence, Tim Winton and Kenneth White. The volume offers a thorough questioning of the concept of the transmodern, as well as an informed insight into the future formal and thematic development of literatures in English.

part II|30 pages

Transmodern Ethics

chapter 4|13 pages

Refracting the Transmodern

Harry Parker’s Anatomy of a Soldier

chapter 5|15 pages

From Egology to Ecology

Elements of the Transmodern in Tim Winton’s Eyrie 1

part IV|47 pages

Transmodern Poetics of the (Spiritual) Self

part V|29 pages

Transcultural Femininities

chapter 11|11 pages

The Intimate-Universal

Juliet/Julieta

chapter 12|16 pages

Adichie’s “The American Embassy” and “Jumping Monkey Hill”

A Transmodern Response to Transmodernity

part VI|10 pages

Conclusion