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Nabokov, Rushdie, and the Transnational Imagination: Novels of Exile and Alternate Worlds

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2010
ISBN
0230102611, 9780230102613
LCC
PN56.C683 T76 2010
Open Library ID
OL23833192M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1750781 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
252\252
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Nabokov, Rushdie, and the Transnational Imagination argues that exiled and migrant novelists create alternate worlds which teach their readers to construct new, nation-like communities. Taking Vladimir Nabokov and Salman Rushdie as model practitioners, this book shows how such writers are remaking national literary traditions. These playful, puzzle-filled texts transcend classification as postcolonial or postmodern; instead, they help identify and create a lineage of boundary-crossing, and test how far the real world can be changed by fiction.

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