Browsing by Subject "Transmodernity"

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    Narrating the transmodern fracture in Teju Cole'S Every day is for the thief.
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Villamarin-Freire, Sara; University of Santiago de Compostela. Faculty of Philology.
    This paper examines the novella Every Day Is for the Thief (Teju Cole, 2007/2014) as exemplary of the transmodern turn in literature and, specifically, of what Rosa María Rodríguez Magda has termed “narratives of fracture” (2019). It explores the theoretical shift ushered in by Transmodernity and the repercussions this may have for texts like Cole’s –literary works that address the shortcomings of the Eurocentric world-system and scrutinize the implications of globalization for paramodern cultures– using Enrique Dussel’s terminology (2012). By focusing on the text’s approach to genre and intermediality, conflicted narrative voice, and depiction of transnational fluxes, I seek to chart the ways in which the narrative exposes and undermines Western epistemic domination, while pushing new ways of seeing and thinking aligned with the transmodern paradigm.
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    Refugee policies and narratives in the globalised era: the case of Australia.
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2021) Herrero, Dolores
    One of the effects of globalisation has been population mobility as a result of famine, climate warming and war conflicts, among other things. This flow of refugees, however, is often seen as a menace to the rule of law and human rights concomitant with the Western lifestyle. Refugees are no longer regarded as human beings and victims, but rather as danger, even as potential terrorists, which has led many governments, including the Australian, to detain them indefinitely in detention centres where they are confined in inhuman conditions. The main aim of this paper will be to describe Australian immigration policies and how contemporary Australian narratives on and by refugees are reflecting this situation, mainly by analysing a selection of texts from three recently published collections, namely, A Country Too Far (2013), They Cannot Take the Sky (2017) and Seabirds Crying in the Harbour Dark (2017), and Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains (2018).