Nabokov, Rushdie, and the Transnational Imagination

Novels of Exile and Alternate Worlds
2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-10261-3
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 241 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 470 g

Using Vladimir Nabokov and Salman Rushdie's work, this study argues that transnational fiction refuses the simple oppositions of postcolonial theory and suggests the possibility of an inclusive global literature.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Trousdale, R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Hybridity and Transnational Fiction Alternate Worlds Vladimir Nabokov's Invented Americas Realism, Relativity, and Frames of Reference in Ada and Pale Fire Cosmopolitanism and the Shiv Sena in Midnight's Children and The Moor's Last Sigh Authority, Self, and Community in The Satanic Verses What Actually Happens: Degrees of Reality in The Ground Beneath Her Feet Conclusion: Incest, Monsters, and the 'International Fraternity'

Über Autor(innen)

RACHEL TROUSDALE is Associate Professor of English at Agnes Scott College, USA.