The Novel and Europe

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Traumatic Europe: The Impossibility of Mourning in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz

Chapter 3 Ágota Kristóf’s Europe: (Un)Connectedness and (Non-)Belonging in The Third Lie

Chapter 4 Between Yearning and Aversion: Visions of Europe in Hilde Spiel’s The Darkened Room

Chapter 5 The European Origins of Albania in Ismail Kadare’s The File on H

Chapter 6 Images of Conquest: Europe and Latin American Identity

Chapter 7 Sissie’s Odyssey: Literary Exorcism in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy

Chapter 8 European Fiction on the Borders: The Case of Herta Müller

Chapter 9 Borders, Borderlands and Romani Identity in Colum McCann’s Zoli

Chapter 10 A Betrayal of Enlightenment: EU Expansion and Tõnu Õnnepalu’s Border State

Chapter 11 The Dilemmas of ‘Post-Communism’: Elizabeth Wilson’s The Lost Time Café

Chapter 12 Minorities and Migrants: Transforming the Swedish Literary Field

Chapter 13 ‘My Dream Can Also Become Your Burden’: Semezdin Mehmedinović’s Poetics of Self-Determination

Chapter 14 Blowing Hot and Cold: Georgia and the West

Chapter 15 Becoming Black in Belgium: Chika Unigwe and the Social Construction of Blackness

Chapter 16 Undivided Waters: Spatial and Translational Paradoxes in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s The Bridge of the Golden Horn

Chapter 17 Amara Lakhous’s Divorce Islamic Style: Muslim Connections in European Culture