Transcultural identities in contemporary literature / / edited by Irene Gilsenan Nordin, Julie Hansen, and Carmen Zamorano Llena.
In recent decades, globalization has led to increased mobility and interconnectedness. For a growing number of people, contemporary life entails new local and transnational interdependencies which transform individual and collective allegiances. Contemporary literature often reflects these changes t...
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| Superior document: | Cross cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English ; 167 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Rodopi,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cross/cultures ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Transnational Movements and the Limits of Citizenship: Redefinitions of National Belonging in Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland / Carmen Zamorano Llena
- Forging a Transcultural Identity as a Russian-American Writer: Lara Vapnyar and Cultural Adaptation / Karen L. Ryan
- Childhood, Migration, and Identity in Chris Cleave’s The Other Hand / Carly Mclaughlin
- Cosmopolitanism and Citizenship: Identities and Affiliations in Monica Ali’s In the Kitchen / Houswitschka Christoph
- Constructions of Transcultural Subjectivity: Going Beyond Nationalism and Ethnicity in A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain / Mats Tegmark
- Cosmopolitan Perspectives: Globalization and Transnationalization in Contemporary German Literature / Kristin Rebien
- Beyond the Multicultural Fairytale: Insider–Outsiders, the Politics of Violence, and the Transnational Turn in Canadian Literature / Pilar Cuder–Domínguez
- Beyond Multiculturalism: Invisible Men and Transculturality in The Human Stain and Erasure / Malin Lidström Brock
- America After 9/11: Ethnic Diversity and Patriotism in John Updike’s Terrorist / Katherina Dodou
- Literary Language and the Translated Self of Assia Djebar / Stefan Helgesson
- Translingual and Transcultural Patterns in Francophone Literature of the Maghreb / Eric Sellin
- Hsia Yü’s Translingual Transculturalism from Memoranda to Pink Noise / J.B. Rollins
- Notes on Contributors
- Index.