The grammar of identity
Subtitle: transnational fiction and the nature of the boundary
By: Stephen Clingman.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780199278497
Subjects: English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Transnationalism in literature; Globalization in literature; International relations in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Kolonialisme; Postkolonialisme; Nationale identiteit; Romans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-259) and index.
Table of contents: title: Waterways of the earth : Joseph Conrad : Nostromo, Lord Jim, Heart of darkness; title: Route, constellation, faultline : Caryl Phillips : The nature of blood, A distant shore; title: Combination, divination : Salman Rushdie : Midnight's children, The satanic verses; title: Verticle and horizontal : Charlotte Brontë, Jean Rhys, and Anne Michaels : Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, Fugitive pieces; title: Transfiction : W.G. Sebald : The emigrants, Vertigo, The rings of Saturn, Austerlitz; title: Village, empire, desert : J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer : July's people, Waiting for the barbarians, The pickup; title: Conclusion : the nature of the boundary.