Stephen Clingman

The Grammar of Identity: Transnational Fiction and the Nature of the Boundary

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines some of the most intriguing writers of the 20th century, including Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, Salman Rushdie, and J. M. Coetzee. In a world which is insistently 'global' yet at the same time shows people retreating into singular versions of belonging and identity, Clingman explores the idea of the 'transnational' in key works of fiction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• New
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199278497
• ISBN-10: 0199278490
• Artikelnr.: 25564457

Autorenporträt

Stephen Clingman is Professor of English and Director of the Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His first book was The Novels Of Nadine Gordimer: History From The Inside, and his edited collection of essays by Nadine Gordimer, The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics And Places, published by Jonathan Cape and Knopf, has been translated into a number of languages. He is widely regarded as one of the leading critics of Gordimer's work, and has published numbers of articles on South African fiction, as well as on contemporary writers such as Caryl Phillips. Clingman has also ventured into non-fiction: his Bram Fischer: Afrikaner Revolutionary, a biography of the white Afrikaner who led Nelson Mandela's legal defence at the Rivonia Trial, won the 1999 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award, South Africa's premier prize for non-fiction.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction. The Grammar of Identity
* 1: Waterways of the Earth: Joseph Conrad - Nostromo; Lord Jim; Heart
of Darkness
* 2: Route, Constellation, Faultline: Caryl Phillips - The Nature of
Blood; A Distant Shore
* 3: Combination, Divination: Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children; The
Satanic Verses
* 4: Vertical and Horizontal: Charlotte Brontë, Jean Rhys, and Anne
Michaels - Jane Eyre; Wide Sargasso Sea; Fugitive Pieces
* 5: Transfiction: W. G. Sebald - The Emigrants; Vertigo; The Rings of
Saturn; Austerlitz
* 6: Village, Empire, Desert: Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee -
July's People; Waiting for the Barbarians; The Pickup
* Conclusion. The Nature of the Boundary