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Trans­mod­ern per­spec­tives on con­tem­po­rary lit­er­a­tures in Eng­lish
Trans­mod­ern Per­spec­tives on Con­tem­po­rary Lit­er­a­tures in Eng­lish offers a con­struc­tive dia­logue on the con­cept of the trans­mod­ern, focus­ing on the works by very dif­fer­ent con­tem­po­rary authors from all over the world, such as: Chi­man­da Ngozi Adichie, Mar­garet Atwood, Sebas­t­ian Bar­ry, A. S. Byatt, Tabish Khair, David Mitchell, Alice Munroe, Har­ry Park­er, Caryl Phillips, Richard Rodriguez, Alan Spence, Tim Win­ton and Ken­neth White. The vol­ume offers a thor­ough ques­tion­ing of the con­cept of the trans­mod­ern, as well as an informed insight into the future for­mal and the­mat­ic devel­op­ment of lit­er­a­tures in Eng­lish.
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Anglo­phone lit­er­a­ture and cul­ture in the anthro­pocene
Defined as an eco­log­i­cal epoch in which humans have the most impact on the envi­ron­ment, the Anthro­pocene pos­es chal­leng­ing ques­tions to lit­er­ary and cul­tur­al stud­ies. If, in the Anthro­pocene, the dis­tinc­tion between nature and cul­ture increas­ing­ly col­laps­es, we have to rethink our divi­sion between his­to­ri­og­ra­phy and nat­ur­al his­to­ry, as well as notions of the sub­ject and of agency since the Enlight­en­ment.
This anthol­o­gy col­lects papers from lit­er­ary and cul­tur­al stud­ies that address var­i­ous issues sur­round­ing the top­ic. Even though the new epoch seems to require a col­lec­tive self-under­stand­ing as a uni­fied species, read­ings of the Anthro­pocene and con­cep­tu­al­iza­tions of human-nature rela­tion­ships large­ly dif­fer in Anglo­phone lit­er­a­tures and cul­tures. These dif­fer­ing per­spec­tives are reflect­ed in the struc­ture of this book, which is divid­ed into five sep­a­rate sec­tions: the intro­duc­to­ry part famil­iar­izes the read­er with the con­cept and the chal­lenges it pos­es for the human­i­ties in gen­er­al and for lit­er­ary and cul­tur­al stud­ies in par­tic­u­lar, and the three fol­low­ing sec­tions com­bine broad­er, more the­o­ret­i­cal, essays with in-depth crit­i­cal read­ings of US, Cana­di­an, and Aus­tralian rep­re­sen­ta­tions of the Anthro­pocene in lit­er­a­ture. The final part moves beyond lit­er­a­ture to include media the­o­ret­i­cal per­spec­tives and dis­cus­sions of pho­tog­ra­phy and cin­e­ma in the Anthro­pocene.
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