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!!Transcending the Postmodern\\The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm

Edited by [Susana Onega|Member/Onega_Susana] and [Jean-Michel Ganteau|Member/Ganteau_Jean-Michel], both members of the [Literary and theatrical studies|Acad_Main/Sections/Literary_and_theatrical_studies] section of __Academia Europea__.
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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.
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Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature\\
London and New York\\
Routledge, 2020\\
255 pp. \\
ISBN: 978-0-367-86055-4 (hbk)\\
ISBN: 978-1-003-03758-3 (ebk).
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!Contents
!PART I

__The Poetics of Transmodernity__
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__The Transmodern Poetics of David Mitchell’s ''Cloud Atlas'': Generic Hybridity, Narrative Embedding and Transindividuality__
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Susana Onega
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__Transnational Latino/a Literature and the Transmodern Meta-Narrative: An Alternative Reading of Junot Díaz’s ''The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao''__
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Sara Villamarín-Freire
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__The Novel of Ideas at the Crossroads of Transmodernity: Tom McCarthy’s ''Satin Island''__
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Angelo Monaco

!PART II

__Ethical Perceptions__
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__Problematising the Transmodern: Jon McGregor’s Ethics of Consideration__
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Jean-Michel Ganteau
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__Using Transculturalism to Understand the Transmodern Paradigm: Representations of Identity in Zadie Smith’s ''White Teeth'' and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ''Americanah''__
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Matthias Stephan
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__Transmodern Mythopoesis in Kazuo Ishiguro’s ''The Buried Giant''__
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Laura Colombino

!PART III

__Migrancy and the Possibility of Re-enchantment__
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__A Transmodern Approach to Post-9/11 Australia: Richard Flanagan’s ''The Unknown Terrorist'' as a Narrative of the Limit__
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Bárbara Arizti
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__Diversity, Singularity, Re-Enchantment and Relationality in a Transmodern World: Arundhati Roy’s ''The Ministry of Utmost Happiness''__
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Merve Sarıkaya-Şen

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__Perspectives on Biopolitics__
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__Transcorporeality, Fluidity and Transanimality in Monique Roffey’s Novel ''Archipelago''__
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Julia Kuznetski
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__A Transmodern Approach to Biology in Naomi Mitchison’s ''Memoirs of a Spacewoman''__
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Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen