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The Grammar of Identity - Transnational Fiction and the Nature of the Boundary (Paperback)
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The Grammar of Identity - Transnational Fiction and the Nature of the Boundary (Paperback)
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In our current world, questions of the transnational, location,
land, and identity confront us with a particular insistence. The
Grammar of Identity is a lively and wide-ranging study of
twentieth-century fiction that examines how writers across nearly a
hundred years have confronted these issues. Circumventing the
divisions of conventional categories, the book examines writers
from both the colonial and postcolonial, the modern and postmodern
eras, putting together writers who might not normally inhabit the
same critical space: Joseph Conrad, Caryl Phillips, Salman Rushdie,
Charlotte Bronte, Jean Rhys, Anne Michaels, W. G. Sebald, Nadine
Gordimer, and J. M. Coetzee. In this guise, the book itself becomes
a journey of discovery, exploring the transnational not so much as
a literal crossing of boundaries but as a way of being and seeing.
In fictional terms this also means that it concerns a set of
related forms: ways of approaching time and space; constructions of
the self by way of combination and constellation; versions of
navigation that at once have to do with the foundations of language
as well as our pathways through the world. From Conrad's waterways
of the earth, to Sebald's endless horizons of connection and
accountability, to Gordimer's and Coetzee's meditations on the key
sites of village, Empire, and desert, the book recovers the
centrality of fiction to our understanding of the world. At the
heart of it all is the grammar of identity, how we assemble and
undertake our versions of self at the core of our forms of being
and seeing.
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