Wayfarers, ghosts and viruses: figures of transmission in Hari Kunzru’s novels
This article seeks to explore the forms and figures of transmission in three of Hari Kunzru’s novels. Since his first novel, the theme of transmission has pervaded Kunzru’s fiction, notably in the motifs of miscegenation and contagion. Transmission also appears in representations of cultural appropr...
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| הוצא לאור ב: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/pla, |
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| פורמט: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| שפה: | Anglais |
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Postcolonial Literatures and Arts
2025
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| גישה מקוונת: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| סיכום: | This article seeks to explore the forms and figures of transmission in three of Hari Kunzru’s novels. Since his first novel, the theme of transmission has pervaded Kunzru’s fiction, notably in the motifs of miscegenation and contagion. Transmission also appears in representations of cultural appropriation and the circulation of information. Rather than a conception of transmission where one “act[s] out a script received from predecessors” (Ingold 2011, 162), Kunzru’s novels display transmission through forms of accretions, diversions and self-reinventions. |
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