Nabokov, Rushdie, and the transnational imagination : novels of exile and alternate worlds / Rachel Trousdale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trousdale, Rachel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rushdie, Salman.

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.

Cosmopolitanism in literature.

Transnationalism in literature.

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977--Criticism and interpretation.

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich.

Rushdie, Salman--Criticism and interpretation.

National characteristics in literature.

Imagination in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

x, 241 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Summary:

Nabokov, Rushdie, and the Transnational Imagination argues that exiled and migrant novelists create alternate worlds which teach their readers to construct new, nation-like communities. Taking Vladimir Nabokov and Salman Rushdie as model practitioners, this book shows how such writers are remaking national literary traditions. These playful, puzzle-filled texts transcend classification as postcolonial or postmodern; instead, they help identify and create a lineage of boundary-crossing, and test how far the real world can be changed by fiction.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230102613

0230102611

OCLC:

437300378