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Transcultural writers and novels in the age of global mobility /

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 cul...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dagnino, Arianna, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, 2015.
©2015
Series:Comparative cultural studies.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.
  • 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.