The Novel and Europe

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).

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.- Bibliography.- Index