Clingman, Stephen.

The grammar of identity : transnational fiction and the nature of the boundary / Stephen Clingman. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - xiv, 266 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-259) and index.

Waterways of the earth : Joseph Conrad : Nostromo, Lord Jim, Heart of darkness -- Route, constellation, faultline : Caryl Phillips : The nature of blood, A distant shore -- Combination, divination : Salman Rushdie : Midnight's children, The satanic verses -- Verticle and horizontal : Charlotte Brontė, Jean Rhys, and Anne Michaels : Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, Fugitive pieces -- Transfiction : W.G. Sebald : The emigrants, Vertigo, The rings of Saturn, Austerlitz -- Village, empire, desert : J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer : July's people, Waiting for the barbarians, The pickup -- Conclusion : the nature of the boundary.

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English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Transnationalism in literature.
Globalization in literature.
International relations in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Kolonialisme.
Postkolonialisme.
Nationale identiteit.
Romans.

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