Violent Waters: Literary Border Crossings in a Global Age / / Alexandra Campana.
The experience of witnessing and undertaking border crossings has become a pillar of the contemporary human condition. In order to respond to our global, multidimensional social reality, writers need to generate innovative forms of narration that expand the confines of literary tradition. This study...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VIII, 274 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction: Water and Unicorns. On Contemporary Fiction
- Chapter 1. Migration. Moving through Images and Words: Herta Müller’s The Passport (Der Mensch ist ein großer Fasan auf der Welt, 1986) and Gish Jen’s Typical American (1991)
- Chapter 2. Intercultural Dialogue. Communication across Space and Time in the New Millennium: Hugo Loetscher’s The Mandarin’s Eyes (Die Augen des Mandarin, 1999)
- Chapter 3. Defining the Self. Identity Formation in a Post-colonial World: Martin R. Dean’s My Fathers (Meine Väter, 2003) and Habib Tengour’s This Particular Tartar 2 (Besagter Tatar 2 / Ce Tatar-là 2, 1997–1998)
- Chapter 4. Invasion. Religion, War, and the Politics of Narration: Ian McEwan’s Saturday (2005)
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index