| Description |
1 online resource (x, 241 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Hybridity and Transnational Fiction; 1 Alternate Worlds; 2 Vladimir Nabokov's Invented Americas; 3 Realism, Relativity, and Frames of Reference in Ada and Pale Fire; 4 Cosmopolitanism and the Shiv Sena in Midnight's Children and The Moor's Last Sigh; 5 Authority, Self, and Community in The Satanic Verses; 6 What Actually Happens: Degrees of Reality in The Ground Beneath Her Feet; Conclusion: Incest, Monsters, and the "International Fraternity"; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Using Vladimir Nabokov and Salman Rushdie's work, this study argues that transnational fiction refuses the simple oppositions of postcolonial theory and suggests the possibility of an inclusive global literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Rushdie, Salman -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 fast |
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Rushdie, Salman fast |
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Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovič, 1899-1977 -- analys och tolkning. sao |
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Rushdie, Salman, 1947- -- analys och tolkning. sao |
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Cosmopolitanism in literature.
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Transnationalism in literature.
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National characteristics in literature.
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Imagination in literature.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Cosmopolitanism in literature
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Imagination in literature
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National characteristics in literature
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Transnationalism in literature
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Kosmopolitism i litteraturen.
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Nationalkaraktär i litteraturen.
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Fantasi i litteraturen.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230106888 |
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0230106889 |
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9781349286973 |
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1349286974 |
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