Transmodern Literatures in the 21st Century: Of(f) Limits (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1041067895 ISBN 13: 9781041067894

Verlag: Routledge, 2025

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Transmodern Literatures in the 21st Century examines the ways in which limits are being articulated, reinforced, redrawn and transgressed in contemporary literary narratives in English. They examine the generic, formal, thematic and ideological features of a variety of transmodern trends from an interdisciplinary perspective.

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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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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1041067895
• ISBN 13: 9781041067894
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 278
• Herausgeber: Neumann Claus-Peter, Royo-Grasa Pilar
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