Adnan Mahmutović is a Bosnian-Swedish lecturer of literature in English, cultural studies, and creative writing at the Department of English, Stockholm University. Although his primary work has been focused on the postcolonial immigrant writers from South-East Asia and Africa, such as Rushdie, Ondaatje, Okri, and Khair, he has published academic and popular scientific articles on Coleridge, Von Trier, and some contemporary popular culture. His fiction has been anthologised and collected in How to Fare Well and Stay Fair (Salt publ), and his novel Thinner than a Hair came out with Cinnamon Press in 2010. He is currently the writer in residence at Stockholm University.

• Ways of Being Free: IntroductionWar Is Everything’s Father: History and Death as Causes of Existential AngstIntroduction: Causes of Existential AngstChange and Changelessness in Midnight’s ChildrenThe Road of Existential Struggle in The Famished RoadHistory and the “Nervous Condition” in The English PatientDeath as a Drive to Meaningful Existence in Midnight’s ChildrenBecoming Dead-to-the-World in The English PatientIdeological Re-appropriation through Death in The Famished RoadAuthenticityAuthenticity: IntroductionFrom Self-Sufficiency to Inoperative Community in The English PatientRevolution Revisited in The Famished RoadFrom Communalism to the Comic Absurd in Midnight’s ChildrenConclusionBibliographyIndex

Adnan Mahmutović is a Bosnian-Swedish lecturer of literature in English, cultural studies, and creative writing at the Department of English, Stockholm University. Although his primary work has been focused on the postcolonial immigrant writers from South-East Asia and Africa, such as Rushdie, Ondaatje, Okri, and Khair, he has published academic and popular scientific articles on Coleridge, Von Trier, and some contemporary popular culture. His fiction has been anthologised and collected in How to Fare Well and Stay Fair (Salt publ), and his novel Thinner than a Hair came out with Cinnamon Press in 2010. He is currently the writer in residence at Stockholm University.

• Ways of Being Free: IntroductionWar Is Everything’s Father: History and Death as Causes of Existential AngstIntroduction: Causes of Existential AngstChange and Changelessness in Midnight’s ChildrenThe Road of Existential Struggle in The Famished RoadHistory and the “Nervous Condition” in The English PatientDeath as a Drive to Meaningful Existence in Midnight’s ChildrenBecoming Dead-to-the-World in The English PatientIdeological Re-appropriation through Death in The Famished RoadAuthenticityAuthenticity: IntroductionFrom Self-Sufficiency to Inoperative Community in The English PatientRevolution Revisited in The Famished RoadFrom Communalism to the Comic Absurd in Midnight’s ChildrenConclusionBibliographyIndex

Adnan Mahmutović is a Bosnian-Swedish lecturer of literature in English, cultural studies, and creative writing at the Department of English, Stockholm University. Although his primary work has been focused on the postcolonial immigrant writers from South-East Asia and Africa, such as Rushdie, Ondaatje, Okri, and Khair, he has published academic and popular scientific articles on Coleridge, Von Trier, and some contemporary popular culture. His fiction has been anthologised and collected in How to Fare Well and Stay Fair (Salt publ), and his novel Thinner than a Hair came out with Cinnamon Press in 2010. He is currently the writer in residence at Stockholm University.

• Ways of Being Free: IntroductionWar Is Everything’s Father: History and Death as Causes of Existential AngstIntroduction: Causes of Existential AngstChange and Changelessness in Midnight’s ChildrenThe Road of Existential Struggle in The Famished RoadHistory and the “Nervous Condition” in The English PatientDeath as a Drive to Meaningful Existence in Midnight’s ChildrenBecoming Dead-to-the-World in The English PatientIdeological Re-appropriation through Death in The Famished RoadAuthenticityAuthenticity: IntroductionFrom Self-Sufficiency to Inoperative Community in The English PatientRevolution Revisited in The Famished RoadFrom Communalism to the Comic Absurd in Midnight’s ChildrenConclusionBibliographyIndex