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Author:   Irene Gilsenan Nordin ,  Julie Hansen ,  Carmen Zamorano Llena
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Editions Rodopi B.V.
Volume:   167
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.632kg
ISBN:  

9789042037359

ISBN 10:   9042037350
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   01 January 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements Irene Gilsenan Nordin, Julie Hansen, and Carmen Zamorano Llena: Introduction: Conceptualizing Transculturality in Literature A New Kind of Migration Carmen Zamorano Llena: Transnational Movements and the Limits of Citizenship: Redefinitions of National Belonging in Joseph O'Neill's Netherland Karen L. Ryan: Forging a Transcultural Identity as a Russian-American Writer: Lara Vapnyar and Cultural Adaptation Carly McLaughlin: Childhood, Migration, and Identity in Chris Cleave's The Other Hand Transcending the Nation Christoph Houswitschka: Cosmopolitanism and Citizenship: Identities and Affiliations in Monica Ali's In the Kitchen Mats Tegmark: Constructions of Transcultural Subjectivity: Going Beyond Nationalism and Ethnicity in A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Kristin Rebien: Cosmopolitan Perspectives: Globalization and Transnationalization in Contemporary German Literature Critiques of Multiculturalism Pilar Cuder-Dominguez: Beyond the Multicultural Fairytale: Insider-Outsiders, the Politics of Violence, and the Transnational Turn in Canadian Literature Malin Lidstrom Brock: Beyond Multiculturalism: Invisible Men and Transculturality in The Human Stain and Erasure Katherina Dodou: America After 9/11: Ethnic Diversity and Patriotism in John Updike's Terrorist The Interaction of Languages in Translingual Texts Stefan Helgesson: Literary Language and the Translated Self of Assia Djebar Eric Sellin: Translingual and Transcultural Patterns in Francophone Literature of the Maghreb J.B. Rollins: Hsia Yu's Translingual Transculturalism from Memoranda to Pink Noise Notes on Contributors Index

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Irene Gilsenan Nordin is Professor of English Literature at Dalarna University, Sweden. She is founder and director of DUCIS (Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies) and leads Dalarna University's Transcultural Identities research group. Julie Hansen is Research Fellow at the Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies and teaches Russian literature in the Department of Modern Languages at Uppsala University, Sweden. Carmen Zamorano Llena is Associate Professor of English Literature at Dalarna University, Sweden, and member of Dalarna University's Transcultural Identities research group.

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