The grammar of identity : transnational fiction and the nature of the boundary / Stephen Clingman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clingman, Stephen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Transnationalism in literature.

Globalization in literature.

International relations in literature.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text examines some of the most intriguing writers of the 20th century, including Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, Salman Rushdie, and J.M. Coetzee.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction. The Grammar of Identity; 1. Waterways of the Earth; Nostromo; Lord Jim; Heart of Darkness; 2. Route, Constellation, Faultline; The Nature of Blood; A Distant Shore; 3. Combination, Divination; Midnight's Children; The Satanic Verses; 4. Vertical and Horizontal; Jane Eyre; Wide Sargasso Sea; Fugitive Pieces; 5. Transfiction; The Emigrants; Vertigo; The Rings of Saturn; Austerlitz; 6. Village, Empire, Desert; July's People; Waiting for the Barbarians; The Pickup; Conclusion. The Nature of the Boundary; References; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-965381-X

0-19-155736-6

9786611978648

1-281-97864-7

OCLC:

311815514