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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|51 pages
Transmodernity
part II|30 pages
Transmodern Ethics
part III|55 pages
Transnational Identities and Spaces
part IV|47 pages
Transmodern Poetics of the (Spiritual) Self
part V|29 pages
Transcultural Femininities
chapter 12|16 pages
Adichie’s “The American Embassy” and “Jumping Monkey Hill”
part VI|10 pages
Conclusion