Literature of the global age : a critical study of transcultural narratives /
Ascari, Maurizio.
Jefferson, N.C ; London. : McFarland,
c2011.
"This critical text examines eight novels from eight cultures. The writers discussed are Julian Barnes, Magda Szabo, Abraham B. Yehoshua, Ian McEwan, W.G. Sebald, Murakami Haruki, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Azar Nafisi. Focusing on the authors' encouragement to meditate on life's most pressing issues, the essays here invite us to reevaluate postmodernism as a current category"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-195) and index.
"This critical text examines eight novels from eight cultures. The writers discussed are Julian Barnes, Magda Szabo, Abraham B. Yehoshua, Ian McEwan, W.G. Sebald, Murakami Haruki, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Azar Nafisi. Focusing on the authors' encouragement to meditate on life's most pressing issues, the essays here invite us to reevaluate postmodernism as a current category"--Provided by publisher.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Transnationalism in literature.