:Transnational Fiction and the Nature of the Boundary
/ Stephen Clingman
Oxford ;New York
: Oxford University Press
, 2009.
xiv, 266 p.
: ill.
Print
Bibliography
Index
Waterways of the earth : Joseph Conrad : Nostromo, Lord Jim, Heart of darkness -- Route, constellation, faultline : Caryl Phillips : The nature of blood, A distant shore -- Combination, divination : Salman Rushdie : Midnight's children, The satanic verses -- Verticle and horizontal : Charlotte Brontee, Jean Rhys, and Anne Michaels : Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, Fugitive pieces -- Transfiction : W.G. Sebald : The emigrants, Vertigo, The rings of Saturn, Austerlitz -- Village, empire, desert : J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer : July's people, Waiting for the barbarians, The pickup -- Conclusion : the nature of the boundary.
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism