Schwab, Gabriele.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2012.
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Notes:

• I. Writing, desire, and transference — Another writing lesson: Lévi-Strauss, Derrida, and the chief of the Nambikwara — Traveling literature, traveling theory: imaginary encounters between East and West — Restriction and mobility: desire, transference, and the cultural imaginary — II. Aannibals, children, and aliens — The melancholic cannibal: Juan José Saer’s The witness and Marianne Wiggins’s John Dollar — War children in a global world: Richard Powers’s Operation wandering soul — Ethnographies of the future: personhood, agency, and power in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis — III. Coda — Cosmographical meditations on the inhuman: Samuel Beckett’s The lost ones.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects:

• Literature — History and criticism — Theory, etc.
• Literature and society.
• Social science literature.

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