Literature of the global age
Subtitle: a critical study of transcultural narratives
By: Maurizio Ascari
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780786459599
Subjects: Postmodernism (Literature); Transnationalism in literature
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-195) and index.