Transglossic Literature

In 2021, Kristian Shaw and Sara Upstone published their article ‘The Transglossic: Contemporary Literature and the Limitations of the Modern’. English Studies, 102:5, 573-600. The article outlines in detail the six features of the transglossic as they pertain to develops in contemporary fiction. Drawing from a range of global literatures, the article situates transglossic within the context of ongoing preoccupations with modernisms within literary studies and argues that we need a new language to describe the dynamic presence of storytelling in contemporary culture.