Narrating the transmodern fracture in Teju Cole'S Every day is for the thief.

Villamarin-Freire, Sara

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Narrating the transmodern fracture in Teju Cole'S Every day is for the thief.

dc.contributor.author	Villamarin-Freire, Sara
dc.contributor.department	University of Santiago de Compostela. Faculty of Philology.	es
dc.date.accessioned	2025-07-16T11:09:20Z
dc.date.available	2025-07-16T11:09:20Z
dc.date.issued	2025
dc.description.abstract	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.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	Villamarin-Freire, S. (2025). Narrating the Transmodern Fracture in Teju Cole’s Every Day Is for the Thief. International Journal of English Studies, 25(1), 185–201. https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.603661	es
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.603661
dc.identifier.issn	1578-7044
dc.identifier.issn	1989-6131 (Internet)
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/157454
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones.	es
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad.	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Transmodernity	en
dc.subject	Postmillennial literature	en
dc.subject	Travelogue	en
dc.subject	Narratives of fracture	en
dc.subject	Teju Cole	en
dc.subject	Every Day Is for the Thief	en
dc.subject	Globalization	en
dc.subject	Transnational networks	en
dc.subject.other	CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura	es
dc.title	Narrating the transmodern fracture in Teju Cole'S Every day is for the thief.	en
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
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