ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|68 pages
The Poetics of Transmodernity
chapter 1|26 pages
The Transmodern Poetics of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas
chapter 2|19 pages
Transnational Latino/a Literature and the Transmodern Meta-narrative
chapter 3|21 pages
The Novel of Ideas at the Crossroads of Transmodernity
part II|66 pages
Ethical Perceptions
chapter 5|24 pages
Using Transculturalism to Understand the Transmodern Paradigm
part III|38 pages
Migrancy and the Possibility of Reenchantment
chapter 7|20 pages
A Transmodern Approach to Post-9/11 Australia
chapter 8|16 pages
Diversity, Singularity, Reenchantment and Relationality in a Transmodern World
part IV|38 pages
Perspectives on Biopolitics