transnational fiction and the nature of the boundary /
Stephen Clingman.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
xiv, 266 pages :
illustrations ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-259) and 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 Brontë, 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.
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"Stephen Clingman is Professor of English and Director of the Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst."--Jacket.
English fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
Globalization in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
International relations in literature.
Transnationalism in literature.
Engelsk litteratur-- historia-- 1900-talet.
Englisch.
English fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.