Transcending the Postmodern

Susana Onega is Professor of English Literature at the University of Zaragoza, (Spain). Jean-Michel Ganteau is Professor of Contemporary British Literature at the University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 (France).CONTRIBUTORSSara Villamarin-Freire, Angelo Monaco, Matthias Stephan, Laura Colombino, Barbara Arizti, Mervew Sarikaya-Sen, Julia Kuznetski, and Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen

"This book stands out as an unyielding and timely repositioning of paradigms in the domains of philosophy, aesthetics, literary criticism and cultural theory through the lens of contemporary literature in English…the ten chapters of the book succeed in producing a close view of how themes such as postcolonialism, subalternity, eco-criticism, feminist criticism, etc. fall into the transmodern pattern." Sorin Cazacu, University of Craiova, British and American Studies

• Introduction: Transcending the PostmodernSusana Onega and Jean-Michel GanteauPART IThe Poetics of TransmodernityThe Transmodern Poetics of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas: Generic Hybridity, Narrative Embedding and Transindividuality Susana Onega Transnational Latino/a Literature and the Transmodern Meta-Narrative: An Alternative Reading of Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Sara Villamarín-Freire The Novel of Ideas at the Crossroads of Transmodernity: Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island Angelo Monaco PART II Ethical Perceptions Problematising the Transmodern: Jon McGregor’s Ethics of Consideration Jean-Michel Ganteau Using Transculturalism to Understand the Transmodern Paradigm: Representations of Identity in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah Matthias Stephan Transmodern Mythopoesis in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant Laura ColombinoPART III Migrancy and the Possibility of Re-enchantment A Transmodern Approach to Post-9/11 Australia: Richard Flanagan’s The Unknown Terrorist as a Narrative of the LimitBárbara Arizti Diversity, Singularity, Re-Enchantment and Relationality in a Transmodern World: Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Merve Sarikaya-Sen PART IVPerspectives on Biopolitics Transcorporeality, Fluidity and Transanimality in Monique Roffey’s Novel Archipelago Julia Kuznetski A Transmodern Approach to Biology in Naomi Mitchison’s Memoirs of a Spacewoman Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen