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'In a world where the complexity of our cultural and everyday encounters far exceeds the narrow confines of accepted political identity and debate, the concept of transculturality is an absolute necessity. The editor has convened an exciting range of authors to explore and interrogate its challenges and promise.'– Prof. Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science 'This exploration of the ""transcultural"" and its cognates is most welcome for breaking boundaries, dichotomies and binary oppositions in Anglophone cultural and literary studies. It’s a collection that offers fresh and stimulating approaches to our contemporary and global societies, transcending concepts of nationality, identity and cultural homogenization.' – Prof. Fernando Galván, U. of Alcalá A flexible notion employed in nuanced ways by different disciplines, the transcultural is largely invoked to allude to cultural contact processes. As a theoretical construct, an analytical perspective or a form of identity construction, the idea of the transcultural has become most relevant for making sense of the present-day landscape, characterized by global mobility and interconnectedness, and involving cultural fusion phenomena. In a selection of cultural and literary case studies, this volume explores the articulation of the transcultural through the examination of diverse cultural products and texts across the Anglophone world in the contemporary period. The analyses of fiction, poetry, popular culture and media in the collection illuminate the crucial role of contact zones and cultural interaction across the Anglosphere in the global age.

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Author:   Eduardo De Gregorio-Godeo
Publisher:   Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   35
Weight:   0.319kg
ISBN:  

9781803744704

ISBN 10:   1803744707
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   25 March 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Eduardo De Gregorio-Godeo: Introduction: The Transcultural in Cultural Studies and Literature – Insights from the Anglophone World in the Contemporary - Fruela Fernández: Translational Solidarity and Translational Writing in Zahra Patterson and Don Mee Choi - Noemí Pereira-Ares: Forging a Hospitable Contact Zone: Transculturalism in Refugee Tales  - José Manuel Estévez-Saá: Transcultural Exchanges and Contact Zones in Tabish Khair’s How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position, and just another jihadi jane - Margarita Estévez-Saà: Transcultural Bodies in Motion: Rebecca Walker’s Black, White, and Jewish and Adé - David M. Clark: ‘A Stable Sense of Betweenness’: Transcultural and Translingual Aspects of Ken Bruen’s ‘American’ Fiction  - María Jesús Lorenzo-Modia: Medbh McGuckian’s The Thankless Paths to Freedom: Transnational Premises in Contemporary Northern Ireland  - Juan Ignacio Oliva: ‘Song of the Borderland’: Transcultural Ecomaterialism in Norma Cantú’s Meditación fronteriza  - Eduardo Barros-Grela: Transcultural (Super)Heroes: Latinx Comics and Diasporic Popular Culture  - Eduardo De Gregorio-Godeo: Notes on Transculturality Underway in the UK: Refugee NGO Website Personal Narratives – The Case of Refugee Action

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Eduardo De Gregorio-Godeo is Associate Professor of English at Castilla-La Mancha University, Spain. Working at the interface between Cultural Studies and Discourse Studies, his work has approached gender, politics and migration. He is Managing Editor of Oceánide – The Journal of the Spanish Society for the Study of Popular Culture.

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