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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Transnational fiction"”.
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Disrupting Memory: Trauma and Fictions of the ‘War on terror’
This thesis explores the ways in which transnational fiction in the post-9/11 era can intervene in discourse surrounding the ‘war on terror’ to advocate for marginalised and excluded perspectives. This study conceptualises global political discourse—as it relates to the ‘war on terror’ and its …
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Minor Measures: The Plebeian Aesthetics of World Literature in the Twentieth Century
… through modernist, postcolonial and contemporary transnational literatures in the intertwined moments of imperialism, developmentalism and globalism. It studies the category of world literature as a heterogeneous set of narrative-cognitive forms and comparative modes of gauging from a particular …
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Recalling trauma: the legacy of slavery and colonialism in contemporary black women’s fiction
… Through comparative readings of contemporary fiction by black women writers from two continents, I explore the intimate links between the historical traumas of colonialism and slavery and the identity of black women in novels by Toni Morrison, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Edwidge Danticat, Tsitsi …