Students would take this module in their second semester of their MA programme, primarily because they will already have experience of postmodernism from various other MA courses, such as Postmodern Cultures, Postmodern American Fictions (from semester 1), and Metafictional Experiments in the Postmodern Novel. This module also serves to introduce students to a wider variety of postmodern fiction than the MA programme currently allows.

Exploring the postmodern literature of four continents, Asia, Europe, Africa, and South America, often in translation, this module offers students the opportunity to explore the wider global contexts of postmodernism. The module locates postmodernism itself as a global phenomenon (via the concept of postmodernity) and encourages students to assess the relative differences between how postmodern narrative strategies and devices are used by various cultures. 'rranslation? here is as much a method of linking between cultures as it is a linguistic mechanism, and so both technical and thematic concepts of translation will be considered through topics such as magic realism, metafiction, and postcolonialism, as well as issues of globalization, and national, cultural, and individual identity.