Singularity and Transnational Poetics [Hardcover]

PART I: Opening  1. Singularity and Transnational Poetics Birgit Mara Kaiser  PART II: Literature in the Transnation  2. Literature and the Profane Community in Jean-Luc Nancys Being Singular Plural Bart Philipsen  3. Nancy, Djebar and the Singularity of Literature Jane Hiddleston  4. Contemporary Afrikaans Fiction and English Translation: Singularity and the Question of Minor Languages Derek Attridge  5. The Singularity of the Event: Gilles Deleuze, Paul Virilio, Fran?ois Jullien R?da Bensma?a  PART III: Singularity in/of/as Transcultural Poetics  6. Absolute Nonabsolute Singularity: Derrida, Myles na gCopaleen and Fragmentation Maebh Long  7. Rusty Rails and Parallel Tracks: Trans-Latio in Yoko Tawadas Das nackte Auge Leslie A. Adelson  8. The Figure that Robert Frosts Poetics Make: Singularity and Sanskrit Poetic Theory Ranjan Ghosh  9. Singularity, Sinthome and Weak Universality in Virginia Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway and Michael Cunninghams The Hours Tom Ratekin  10. All Things Do Change: Metamorphosis and Community in Hafid Bouazzas Spotvogel Henri?tte Louwerse

A timely reminder of how considerations of singularity can radically destabilize established ideas concerning identity, communicability, nationality, along with linguistic and cultural modes of translation. --Graham Allen, University College Cork, Ireland 

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