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Author:   Dr. or Prof. Ruth Maxey (University of Nottingham, UK) ,  Dr. Daniel Robert King (University of Leicester, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:  

9798765125236

Pages:   240
Publication Date:   14 May 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1. Reimagining Transnational American Fiction (Ruth Maxey, University of Nottingham, UK, and Daniel King, University of Leicester, UK) Part I: Gender 2. ""What Happens to All Lost Girls?"": Unpacking the Shirley Jackson Renaissance (Bernice M. Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) 3. “Soil Is Memory Made Flesh”: Maggie O’Farrell’s Transatlantic Families in This Must be the Place (Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson, SUNY Brockport, USA) 4. Exploring Power and Vulnerability in Saul Bellow’s “Leaving the Yellow House” (Jamal Assadi, College of Sakhnin, Israel) Part II: Race 5. Updating Updike: John Updike, Chinua Achebe, and the Transnational Struggle with Modernity (Yoav Fromer, Tel Aviv University, Israel) 6. The Traumascapes of Detective Fiction (Cynthia S. Hamilton, Liverpool Hope University, UK) 7. Epistolary Power: Letters from the Intersections of Race, Sex, and Class in Alice Walker's The Color Purple (Sue Norton, Technological University Dublin, Ireland) 8. “The Story of North America Turned Inside Out”: Bharati Mukherjee’s The Holder of the World (Claire Chambers, University of York, UK) Part III: Genre 9. Nineteenth-Century Literature Machines (Graham Thompson, University of Nottingham, UK) 10. Voyages into Imperial Space: The First American Narratives of Space Travel (David Seed, Liverpool University, UK) 11. What's Happening Here? Serious Times in Mid-Thirties Fiction (Kasia Boddy, University of Cambridge, UK) 12. Runaway Aliens: Adapting Ted Chiang across the Canada-U.S. Border (Gillian Roberts, University of Nottingham, UK) Notes on Contributors Index

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With this collection, an impressive array of experts breathe new life into transnational literary studies. Power Plays in Transnational American Fiction offers a stimulating analysis of diverse texts while rethinking transnational discourse in an evolving global context. * Aliki Varvogli, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Dundee, UK * This is a wide-ranging and impressive collection of essays that not only pays tribute to a distinguished practitioner in the academic field of American fiction but also tracks significant developments in transnational American studies around the turn of the millennium. * Paul Giles, Honorary Professor of English, University of Sydney, Australia *

Author Information

Ruth Maxey is Associate Professor of Modern American Literature at University of Nottingham, UK. Her publications include The Collected Short Stories of Bharati Mukherjee (2023), 21st Century US Historical Fiction (2020), Understanding Bharati Mukherjee (2019), India at 70 (2019), and South Asian Atlantic Literature, 1970-2010 (2012). Daniel Robert King is Teaching Fellow in American Literature at University of Leicester, UK, and author of Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Evolution (2016). His work has also appeared in the Journal of American Studies, Open Library of Humanities, and Marilynne Robinson (2022).

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