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
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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
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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.
