2009, ISBN: 9780191557361

In our current world, questions of the transnational, location, land, and identity confront us with a particular insistence. The Grammar of Identity is a lively and wide-ranging study of … Plus…

In our current world, questions of the transnational, location, land, and identity confront us with a particular insistence. The Grammar of Identity is a lively and wide-ranging study of twentieth-century fiction that examines how writers across nearly a hundred years have confronted these issues. Circumventing the divisions of conventional categories, the book examines writers from both the colonial and postcolonial, the modern and postmodern eras, puttingtogether writers who might not normally inhabit the same critical space: Joseph Conrad, Caryl Phillips, Salman Rushdie, Charlotte Bront Jean Rhys, Anne Michaels, W. G. Sebald, Nadine Gordimer, and J. M. Coetzee. In this guise, the book itself becomes a journey of discovery, exploring the transnational notso much as a literal crossing of boundaries but as a way of being and seeing. In fictional terms this also means that it concerns a set of related forms: ways of approaching time and space; constructions of the self by way of combination and constellation; versions of navigation that at once have to do with the foundations of language as well as our pathways through the world. From Conrad´s waterways of the earth, to Sebald´s endless horizons of connection and accountability, to Gordimer´s andCoetzee´s meditations on the key sites of village, Empire, and desert, the book recovers the centrality of fiction to our understanding of the world. At the heart of it all is the grammar of identity, how we assemble and undertake our versions of self at the core of our forms of being andseeing. In our current world, questions of the transnational, location, land, and identity confront us with a particular insistence. The Grammar of Identity is a lively and wide-ranging study of twentieth-century fiction that examines how writers across nearly a hundred years have confronted these issues. Circumventing the divisions of conventional categories, the book examines writers from both the colonial and postcolonial, the modern and postmodern eras, puttingtogether writers who might not eBook PDF 08.01.2009 eBooks>Fremdsprachige eBooks>Englische eBooks, OUP Oxford, .200<

ISBN: 9780191557361

In our current world, questions of the transnational, location, land, and identity confront us with a particular insistence.The Grammar of Identity is a lively and wide-ranging study of t… Plus…

In our current world, questions of the transnational, location, land, and identity confront us with a particular insistence.The Grammar of Identity is a lively and wide-ranging study of twentieth-century fiction that examines how writers across nearly a hundred years have confronted these issues.Circumventing the divisions of conventional categories, the book examines writers from both the colonial and postcolonial, the modern and postmodern eras, puttingtogether writers who might not normally inhabit the same critical space: Joseph Conrad, Caryl Phillips, Salman Rushdie, Charlotte Brontë, Jean Rhys, Anne Michaels, W.G. Sebald, Nadine Gordimer, and J. M. Coetzee. In this guise, the book itself becomes a journey of discovery, exploring the transnational notso much as a literal crossing of boundaries but as a way of being and seeing.In fictional terms this also means that it concerns a set of related forms: ways of approaching time and space; constructions of the self by way of combination and constellation; versions of navigation that at once have to do with the foundations of language as well as our pathways through the world.From Conrad's waterways of the earth, to Sebald's endless horizons of connection and accountability, to Gordimer's andCoetzee's meditations on the key sites of village, Empire, and desert, the book recovers the centrality of fiction to our understanding of the world.At the heart of it all is the grammar of identity, how we assemble and undertake our versions of self at the core of our forms of being andseeing.; PDF; Reference & Languages > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies: general > Literary studi, OUP Oxford<

ISBN: 9780191557361

In our current world, questions of the transnational, location, land, and identity confront us with a particular insistence.The Grammar of Identity is a lively and wide-ranging study of t… Plus…

In our current world, questions of the transnational, location, land, and identity confront us with a particular insistence.The Grammar of Identity is a lively and wide-ranging study of twentieth-century fiction that examines how writers across nearly a hundred years have confronted these issues.Circumventing the divisions of conventional categories, the book examines writers from both the colonial and postcolonial, the modern and postmodern eras, puttingtogether writers who might not normally inhabit the same critical space: Joseph Conrad, Caryl Phillips, Salman Rushdie, Charlotte Brontë, Jean Rhys, Anne Michaels, W.G. Sebald, Nadine Gordimer, and J. M. Coetzee. In this guise, the book itself becomes a journey of discovery, exploring the transnational notso much as a literal crossing of boundaries but as a way of being and seeing.In fictional terms this also means that it concerns a set of related forms: ways of approaching time and space; constructions of the self by way of combination and constellation; versions of navigation that at once have to do with the foundations of language as well as our pathways through the world.From Conrad's waterways of the earth, to Sebald's endless horizons of connection and accountability, to Gordimer's andCoetzee's meditations on the key sites of village, Empire, and desert, the book recovers the centrality of fiction to our understanding of the world.At the heart of it all is the grammar of identity, how we assemble and undertake our versions of self at the core of our forms of being andseeing.; PDF; Reference & Languages > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies: general > Literary studi, OUP Oxford<

ISBN: 9780191557361

In our current world, questions of the transnational, location, land, and identity confront us with a particular insistence.The Grammar of Identity is a lively and wide-ranging study of t… Plus…

In our current world, questions of the transnational, location, land, and identity confront us with a particular insistence.The Grammar of Identity is a lively and wide-ranging study of twentieth-century fiction that examines how writers across nearly a hundred years have confronted these issues.Circumventing the divisions of conventional categories, the book examines writers from both the colonial and postcolonial, the modern and postmodern eras, puttingtogether writers who might not normally inhabit the same critical space: Joseph Conrad, Caryl Phillips, Salman Rushdie, Charlotte Brontë, Jean Rhys, Anne Michaels, W.G. Sebald, Nadine Gordimer, and J. M. Coetzee. In this guise, the book itself becomes a journey of discovery, exploring the transnational notso much as a literal crossing of boundaries but as a way of being and seeing.In fictional terms this also means that it concerns a set of related forms: ways of approaching time and space; constructions of the self by way of combination and constellation; versions of navigation that at once have to do with the foundations of language as well as our pathways through the world.From Conrad's waterways of the earth, to Sebald's endless horizons of connection and accountability, to Gordimer's andCoetzee's meditations on the key sites of village, Empire, and desert, the book recovers the centrality of fiction to our understanding of the world.At the heart of it all is the grammar of identity, how we assemble and undertake our versions of self at the core of our forms of being andseeing.; PDF; Reference & Languages > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies: general > Literary studi, Oup<

2009, ISBN: 9780191557361

Transnational Fiction and the Nature of the Boundary, eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), [PU: OUP Oxford], OUP Oxford, 2009