| Description |
1 online resource (pages cm). |
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| Series |
Comparative cultural studies
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Comparative cultural studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Writing and Transcultural Life; Chapter One: Trojanow's Drive toward Mobility and Cultural Confluences; Chapter Two: Castro, the Other, and the Complexity of Belonging; Chapter Three: Baranay's Transient Life in Writing; Chapter Four: Manguel and the Paradox of Cultural Identity; Chapter Five: Multiple Dimensions of the Transcultural; Part Two: Transcultural Literature in the Age of Multiple Modes of (Post)modernity; Chapter One: Global Nomadism, Multiple Modes of (Post)modernity, and a New Cultural Order. |
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Chapter Two: Transculture, Transculturality, and Transculturalism in the Twenty-First CenturyChapter Three: Transcultural Literature in the Global Ecumene; Chapter Four: Transcultural Writers, Creative Transpatriation, and Transcultural Fiction; Chapter Five: The ""Fuzzy"" Nature of Transcultural Novels; Conclusion; Glossary of Concepts for the Study of Transculturality; Works Cited; Index. |
| Summary |
In Transcultural Writers and Novels in the Age of Global Mobility, Arianna Dagnino analyzes a new type of literature emerging from artists increased movement and cultural flows spawned by globalization. This ""transcultural"" literature is produced by authors who write across cultural and national boundaries and who transcend in their lives and creative production the borders of a single culture. Dagninos book contains a creative rendition of interviews conducted with five internationally renowned writersInez Baranay, Brian Castro, Alberto Manguel, Tim Parks, and Ilija Trojanowand a critical e. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Comparative literature.
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Comparative literature. |
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Cultural fusion in literature.
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Cultural fusion in literature. |
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Literature and transnationalism.
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Literature and transnationalism. |
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Multiculturalism in literature.
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Multiculturalism in literature. |
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Fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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2000-2099 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dagnino, Arianna, 1963- Transcultural writers and novels in the age of global mobility. West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, 2015 (DLC) 2014040755 |
| ISBN |
9781612493756 |
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1612493750 |
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9781612493763 |
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1612493769 |
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9781557537065 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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