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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797484303321

Autore

Dagnino Arianna <1963->

Titolo

Transcultural Writers and Novels in the Age of Global Mobility [[electronic resource] /] / Arianna Dagnino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

West Lafayette, Indiana, : Purdue University Press, 2015

ISBN

1-61249-375-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Collana

Comparative cultural studies

Disciplina

809.3/9355

Soggetti

Comparative literature

Cultural fusion in literature

Literature and transnationalism

Multiculturalism in literature

Fiction - 21st century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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