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World Literature and Postcolonial Studies (Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, 101)

✍ Scribed by Bhavya Tiwari; David Damrosch

Publisher
Brill
Year
2023
Tongue
English
Leaves
251
Series
Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature; 101
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Globalization has given literary studies a worldwide scope, both in postcolonial criticism and in studies of world literature. This ambitious collection explores the mutual illumination gained through the interaction of these divergent approaches to the world's literatures and cultures.

✦ Table of Contents

‎Contents
‎Notes on Contributors
‎Introduction. World Literature and Postcolonial Studies (Damrosch and Tiwari)
‎What Is a World (Literature)? A Conversation (Cheah and Damrosch)
‎Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett, World Literature, and the Colonial Comparisons (Zabel)
‎The Transcendental Subaltern: Private Enlightenment in Occupied Königsberg (Byrne-Taylor)
‎“Venerable Relics of Ancient Lore”: Medieval Welsh Literature as Postcolonial World Literature (Lumbley)
‎The Small-Town Globalism of Ivo Andrić (Ćatović)
‎Abū Shādī, Tagore, and the Problem of World Literature at the Hinge of Afroeurasia (Tageldin)
‎Intersecting Imperialisms: The Rise and Fall of Empires in Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Holgate)
‎Affinities of Postcolonial Memory: Acts of Remembrance in Alex Miller and W.G. Sebald (Pree)
‎“Standing before You, World”: Nation, Translation and World Literature in Postcolonial Syria (Behar)
‎The Multilingual Anglophone: World Literature and Post-Millennial Literature in Postcolonial India (Tiwari)
‎Multilingual Novel: Anticlimax and the Real of World Literature (Figlerowicz)

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