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Transmodern Literatures in the 21st Century: Of(f) Limits offers an in-depth examination of how transmodern literatures in English over the last two decades have addressed the phenomenon of the limit. The 14 chapters that make up the volume examine how geographical, racial, ethnical, sociocultural, generical, ontological, epistemological, and other limits are articulated, transgressed, and reconfigured in recent narratives by authors writing in a wide variety of transmodern trends such as Afro- and Africanfuturism, Young Adult feminist science fiction, food fiction, air travel fiction, the networked novel, and future narratives amongst others. They thereby expose and challenge hierarchised binary dichotomies as Euro- and Anthropocentric exclusionary discursive constructs that have kept non-hegemonic voices off limits. To counter the detrimental effects of the neoliberal grand narrative of globalisation, the chapters as well as the narratives of the limit they analyse emphasise an urgent need for inclusiveness, relationality, and communality.

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Author:   Claus-Peter Neumann ,  Pilar Royo-Grasa
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.670kg
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9781041067894

ISBN 10:   1041067895
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   29 September 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

List of Contributors Introduction: Transmodern Literatures Of(f) the Limits Pilar Royo-Grasa and Claus-Peter Neumann PART I Geographical, Racial and Ethnic Limits 1. Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West as a Transmodern Narrative of(f) the Limit Angelo Monaco 2. Otherwise Vancouver in Black Speculative Fiction: from a Dialectic of Conquest to Transmodern Coalitions of Solidarity Fernando Pérez-García 3. (Writing about) Writing about Limits: Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project Chinmaya Lal Thakur PART II Limits of the Human 4. ‘There Never Was a Wilder Story Imagined’: Posthumanist Conceit and Transmodernity in Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein: A Love Story Vanja Polić 5. Posthuman identities and the Transmodern Paradigm Through Fairy Tales: Marissa Meyer’s “The Little Android” Sidia Fiorato 6. Special Relativity, Real-Time Communications and Vulnerability in Outer Space and Lauren James’s The Loneliest Girl in the Universe Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen 7. Nnedi Okorafor’s Remote Control (2021) and Its Africanfuturist Transmodern Agenda: Harnessing the Past to Understand the Present and Improve the Future Dolores Herrero 8. Speaking of Fracture: Intercultural Dialogue and the Transmodern Perception of Time and Experience in N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth Trilogy Adriana Lobato PART III: Relationality and Community 9. Jon McGregor’s Transmodern Ethics of Re-enchantment in If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things Susana Onega 10. Spatialising the Transmodern in Jim Crace’s The Melody Petr Chalupský 11. Intimations of a Life Well Lived: Beyond Food as Metaphor in Inga Simpson’s Mr Wigg Bárbara Arizti 12. Fragility and (Dis-)Connection in David Szalay’s Turbulence María Jesús Martínez 13. Dissolving Limits in Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island Justine Gonneaud EPILOGUE The Ultimate Limit—NOW: Future Narratives and the Present Moment as Conversion Point of Potentiality into Actuality Christoph Bode Index

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Claus-Peter Neumann is Associate Professor in the Department of English and German Studies at the University of Zaragoza, where he teaches US Literature as well as English Drama and Theatre. His research covers a wide variety of topics, including English and American literature, Second Language Acquisition, English for Specific Purposes, discourse analysis, and the Spanish “novela negra.” Within the field of literature, he has mainly focused on the examination of gender relations and desire, the representation of war and its aftermath as well as the questioning of borders and the concomitant deconstruction of self versus Other in recent US theatre. He has published on Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov, Jerzy Kosinski, and Tony Kushner, amongst others, in international journals such as Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, and The Journal of American Drama and Theatre. Pilar Royo-Grasa is Associate Professor in the Department of English and German Studies at the University of Zaragoza, where she teaches English Literature and Language. She was also Visiting Scholar at the Universities of New South Wales (Australia), Northampton (UK), Regensburg (Germany), and Masaryk (Czech Republic). Between October 2015 and January 2018, she served as Secretary of the European Association for Studies of Australia (EASA). In 2025, she was awarded a scholarship to attend the University of Auckland as a Visiting Fellow, where she researched on human mobility induced by climate change in literary works by South Pacific authors. Her main research interests are contemporary Australian fiction, postcolonial literature, trauma studies, human rights, and migration narratives. She is the author of the monograph Trauma, Australia and Gail Jones’s Fiction (1996-2007) (Peter Lang 2022) and has published articles in international journals such as Journal of Postcolonial Writing, The European Legacy, Humanities, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Journal of the European Association for the Studies of Australia, and Commonwealth Essays and Studies.

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