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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