Nabokov, Rushdie, and the Transnational Imagination
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Nabokov, Rushdie, and the Transnational Imagination

Novels of Exile and Alternate Worlds

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Nabokov, Rushdie, and the Transnational Imagination

Novels of Exile and Alternate Worlds

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: Hybridity and Transnational Fiction
  5. 1 Alternate Worlds
  6. 2 Vladimir Nabokov’s Invented Americas
  7. 3 Realism, Relativity, and Frames of Reference in Ada and Pale Fire
  8. 4 Cosmopolitanism and the Shiv Sena in Midnight’s Children and The Moor’s Last Sigh
  9. 5 Authority, Self, and Community in The Satanic Verses
  10. 6 What Actually Happens: Degrees of Reality in The Ground Beneath Her Feet
  11. Conclusion: Incest, Monsters, and the “International Fraternity”
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index