Transcending the Postmodern: The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm

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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Transcending the Postmodern
Part I: The Poetics of Transmodernity
	1 The Transmodern Poetics of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas: Generic Hybridity, Narrative Embedding and Transindividuality
	2 Transnational Latino/a Literature and the Transmodern Meta-narrative: An Alternative Reading of Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
	3 The Novel of Ideas at the Crossroads of Transmodernity: Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island
Part II: Ethical Perceptions
	4 Problematising the Transmodern: Jon McGregor’s Ethics of Consideration
	5 Using Transculturalism to Understand the Transmodern Paradigm: Representations of Identity in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
	6 Transmodern Mythopoesis in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant
Part III: Migrancy and the Possibility of Reenchantment
	7 A Transmodern Approach to Post-9/11 Australia: Richard Flanagan’s The Unknown Terrorist as a Narrative of the Limit
	8 Diversity, Singularity, Reenchantment and Relationality in a Transmodern World: Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Part IV: Perspectives on Biopolitics
	9 Transcorporeality, Fluidity and Transanimality in Monique Roffey’s Novel Archipelago
	10 A Transmodern Approach to Biology in Naomi Mitchison’s Memoirs of a Spacewoman
Contributor Biographies
Index