The Poetics of Otherness and Transition in Naomi Alderman’s Fiction

The Poetics of Otherness and Transition in Naomi Alderman’s Fiction
ISBN-10
1527546438
ISBN-13
9781527546431
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
166
Language
English
Published
2020-01-28
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Author
José M. Yebra

Description

This is the first book on Naomi Alderman’s literary production, and highlights the writer’s transcultural recasting of British and Jewish traditions. The four novels analysed here prove to be relevant, not only from a literary viewpoint, but also from the fields of ethics, spirituality and politics. The analysis thus focuses on issues such as alterity and respect towards the other in a globalized context. As such, the book will be of interest to literary critics, researchers, and students in the fields of literature, ethics, and social and cultural studies. The reader will find in the text a comprehensive approach to a young writer who undoubtedly deserves attention given her interrogation of varied and socially relevant topics, including gender and sexual orientation in the early twenty-first century, the rewriting of the Sacred Scriptures, and the discourse of feminist posthuman dystopias.

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