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.