Transcending the Postmodern

Introduction: Transcending the Postmodern

Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteau

PART I

The Poetics of Transmodernity



The 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 Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Sara Villamarin-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 Colombino

PART 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 Limit
Barbara Arizti


Diversity, Singularity, Re-Enchantment and Relationality in a Transmodern World: Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Merve Sarikaya-Sen



PART IV

Perspectives 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

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