Novel and Europe (eBook)

Andrew Hammond is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Brighton, UK. His research interests are Cold War fiction, twentieth-century British fiction, postcolonial writing and theory, and cross-cultural representation. Previous publications include British Fiction and the Cold War (2013), Global Cold War Literature (editor, 2012), and British Literature and the Balkans (2010).

Contents

 

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

 

Introduction

Andrew Hammond

 

1   Traumatic Europe: The Impossibility of Mourning in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz

Theodore Koulouris

 

2   Ágota Kristóf’s Europe: (Un)Connectedness and (Non)Belonging in The Third Lie

Metka Zupančič

 

3   Between Yearning and Aversion: Visions of Europe in Hilde Spiel’s The Darkened Room

Christoph Parry

 

4   The European Origins of Albania in Ismail Kadare’s The File on H

Peter Morgan

 

5   Images of Conquest: Europe and Latin American Identity

Peter Beardsell

 

6   Sissie’s Odyssey: Literary Exorcism in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy

Esther Pujolràs-Noguer

 

7   European Fiction on the Borders: The Case of Herta Müller

Marcel Cornis-Pope and Andrew Hammond

 

8   Borders, Borderlands and Romani Identity in Colum McCann’s Zoli

Mihaela Moscaliuc

 

9   A Betrayal of Enlightenment: EU Expansion and Tõnu Õnnepalu’s Border State

Gordana P. Crnković

 

10  The Dilemmas of ‘Post-Communism’: Elizabeth Wilson’s The Lost Time Café

Andrew Hammond

 

11  Minorities and Migrants: Transforming the Swedish Literary Field

Anne Heith

 

12  ‘My Dream Can Also Become Your Burden’: Semezdin Mehmedinović’s Poetics of Self-Determination

Guido Snel

 

13  Blowing Hot and Cold: Georgia and the West

Donald Rayfield

 

14  Becoming Black in Belgium: Chika Unigwe and the Social Construction of Blackness

Sarah de Mul

 

15  Undivided Waters: Spatial and Translational Paradoxes in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s The Bridge of the Golden Horn

Gizem Arslan

 

16  Amara Lakhous’s Divorce Islamic Style: Muslim Connections in European Culture

Daniele Comberiati

 

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Index