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Description

1. 1 online resource (xiv, 266 p.) : ill.

Uniform title

1. Grammar of identity (Online)

Alternative title

1. Grammar of identity (Online)

Subject

1. English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
2. Transnationalism in literature
3. Globalization in literature
4. International relations in literature
5. Identity (Psychology) in literature

Contents

1. Waterways of the earth : Joseph Conrad : Nostromo, Lord Jim, Heart of darkness -- Route, constellation, faultline : Caryl Phillips : The nature of blood, A distant shore -- Combination, divination : Salman Rushdie : Midnight's children, The satanic verses -- Verticle and horizontal : Charlotte Brontë, Jean Rhys, and Anne Michaels : Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, Fugitive pieces -- Transfiction : W.G. Sebald : The emigrants, Vertigo, The rings of Saturn, Austerlitz -- Village, empire, desert : J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer : July's people, Waiting for the barbarians, The pickup -- Conclusion : the nature of the boundary.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-259) and index.

Access (note)

1. Access restricted to authorized users.

Author

1. Clingman, Stephen.

Title

1. The grammar of identity [electronic resource] : transnational fiction and the nature of the boundary / Stephen Clingman.

Imprint

1. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-259) and index.

Access

1. Access restricted to authorized users.

Connect to:

1. Available from home with a valid library card
2. Available onsite at NYPL

LCCN

1. 2009280624