Glocal Metamodernisms

Dennis Kersten is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at Radboud University.Paula Romero Polo is Lecturer in the Institute of Hispanic Studies at the University of Warsaw.Usha Wilbers is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at Radboud University.

Interrogating and showcasing the diversity of metamodernist literature across Europe, Glocal Metamodernisms: European Fiction after Postmodernism explodes any assumptions that metamodernism is a globally (or, at least, Western) homogeneous cultural tradition. It spotlights writing from Britain, Finland, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain and Ukraine to demonstrate the value of attending to their differing relationships to modernism and postmodernism and differing sociopolitical circumstances. Ultimately, by exploring both the global and the local, the essays in this volume enrich and enliven our understanding of literary metamodernism in both theory and practice.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Invisibility of Dutch MetamodernismAnna Krýsová (Leiden University, Netherlands)2. Glocal Metamodernism and the Contemporary British NovelDennis Kersten and Usha Wilbers (Radboud University, Netherlands)3. Metamodernism in Finnish FictionMika Hallila (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) and Kasimir Sandbacka (University of Oulu. Finland)4. Blue-white-red Metamodernism, or the Cultural Logic of the French Post-postmodern NovelMaxime Batiot (University of Waterloo, Canada)5. A Bending History: Metamodernism and Contemporary Italian NovelFabio Vittorini (IULM University of Milan, Italy)6. Metamodernism in Spanish Fiction: The Politicization of Intimacy and Literature after 15-MPaula Romero Polo (Charles III University of Madrid, Spain)7. Human Bonds, Inhuman Experiences and Healing of Traumas: Ukrainian Literary Metamodernism in the Context of the Ongoing WarTetiana Grebeniuk (Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, Germany)