Cosmodernism : American narrative, late globalization, and the new cultural imaginary / Christian Moraru.

Author/creator Moraru, Christian
Format Book
Publication InfoAnn Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2011.
Descriptionxii, 428 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
American literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.
Literature and globalization--United States. --History.
American literature--Minority authors. --History and criticism.

Contents Prologue. Togetherness -- The cosmodern imaginary. Relatedness ; Cosmodern environmentalism: a code of worldly conduct ; With-ness and the epistemoloigal imaginary -- Idiomatics. Comodernism and vernacularism ; Glossolaia: Chang-rae Lee's Native speaker and cosmodern nativity ; Cacophony: Federman the Lingovert -- Onomastics. The names of the world ; Namesakes ; "Through a filter of associations and links": the name of homeyness ; The "infamous other": onomacy -- Translations. The transnational, the relational, and the cosmodern ; Geopolitics of desire ; Translation, mistranslation, countertranslation -- Readings. Cosmodern interpretive communities ; Against solopism ; "Each was the hidden key to the other": reading the Sufis in California ; Friendships across the death: Alice Randall's Pushkin -- Metabolics. The metastatic ; The metamorphic -- Postmodernism into cosmodernism.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010040237
ISBN9780472071296 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0472071297 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780472051298 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0472051296 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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