http://hdl.handle.net/2328/7928 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:06:54 GMT 2013-06-20T12:06:54Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/7988 Title: Contributors to Volume 2, No. 1, November 2009 Abstract: List of contributors to Transnational Literature, Volume 2, no. 1, November 2009. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:20:16 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/7988 2009-11-09T00:20:16Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/7987 Title: A Tribute to Meenakshi Mukherjee Authors: Khair, Tabish; Dwivedi, A N; Dhawan, R K Abstract: Tribute to Professor Meenakshi Mukherjee, member of Transnational Literature's Advisory Board, who died in September 2009. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:17:46 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/7987 2009-11-09T00:17:46Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/7985 Title: Last Days of Empire: DeLillo’s America and Murakami’s Japan Authors: Palmer, David Abstract: Don DeLillo’s Underworld and Haruki Murakami’s The Windup Bird Chronicle anticipated in a literary way the public debate over the existence of contemporary empire in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States and subsequent wars. However, these novels focus on individual experiences and specific cultural aspects of their respective economic superpowers, America and Japan, and are not explicitly political or ideological. Both novels use the history of war in the modern era as a source of memory for individuals in the novels, including memory objects, linking these individuals to specific people in the past. Historical experiences and present experiences of these people are connected through a range of related themes. These include “internal” and “external” wars and violence, with the imagery of games and war as interchangeable; nationally specific religion, superstition, and folk beliefs intersecting with contemporary electronic “magic” such as the internet; and empires past and present that are in an advanced state of decay, abroad through the legacy of lost wars and domestically in the urban “underworld” (DeLillo) / “shadow world” (Murakami) of the two nations’ megacities: New York and Tokyo. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:57:53 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/7985 2009-11-06T11:57:53Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/7984 Title: Diasporic Dispersals and Convergences: The Creative Trajectory of a PhD Project Authors: Khorana, Sukhmani Abstract: My critical-creative PhD project on diasporic creative practice began as a textual analysis dissertation with a video-recorded reception studies component, but it has become more than a hybrid research discourse. Its creative and fluid trajectories are not unlike the dispersals and convergences of diasporic identity and cultural production itself. These trajectories are mapped here with an exegetical section, followed by an edited selection of web-log entries and poetic fragments written during the various production stages of the creative component. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:30:34 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/7984 2009-11-06T02:30:34Z