Re-thinking Europe : literature and (trans)national identity / edited by Nele Bemong, Mirjam Truwant and Pieter Vermeulen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bemong, Nele.

Truwant, Mirjam.

Vermeulen, Pieter.

Series:

Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature 55.

Textxet : studies in comparative literature ; 55

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transnationalism in literature.

Nationalism and literature.

Comparative literature.

European literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Rethinking Europe : literature and (trans)national identity

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Re-Thinking Europe sets out to investigate the place of the idea of Europe in literature and comparative literary studies. The essays in this collection turn to the past, in which Europe became synonymous with a tradition of peace and tolerance beyond national borders, and enter into a critical dialogue with the present, in which Europe has increasingly become associated with a history of oppression and violence. The different essays together demonstrate how the idea of Europe cannot be thought apart from the tension between the regional and the global, between nationalism and pluralism, and can therefore be re-thought as an opportunity for an identity beyond national or ethnic borders. Engaging contemporary discourses on hybrid, postcolonial, and transnational identity, this volume shows how literature can function as both a vital tool to forge new identities and a power subversive of such attempts at identity-formation. Like Europe, it is always marked by the tension between integration and resistance. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of modern literature, comparative literature, and European studies, as well as people concerned with cultural memory and the relation between literature and cultural identity.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Europe, in Comparison / Nele Bemong , Mirjam Truwant and Pieter Vermeulen

Europeanism in One Country: August Vermeylen, Paul van Ostaijen, and the International Approach to Nationalism / Matthijs de Ridder

The Histoire anglaise: Towards a Cosmopolitan View of the Other? / Beatrijs Vanacker

Global Regionalism / David Damrosch

Why the World Is Never Enough: Re-Conceptualizing World Literature as a Self-Substitutive Order / Michael Boyden

Translation and Its Role in European Literatures: Some Questions and Answers / Lieven D’hulst

The (Im)Possibilities of a European Literary History: The Case of Flanders / Ben van Humbeeck

Re-Thinking Ottoman Empire: East-West Collaboration in Orhan Pamuk’s The White Castle / Nagihan Haliloğlu

Kader Attia’s Arabesque: Inscribing Islam in a Provincialized Europe / Mary Stevens

The Old World through a Baroque Mirror: Europe in the Work of Alejo Carpentier / Reindert Dhondt

Cultural Hierarchies, Secondary Nations: The Tension between Europe and “Minor” Cultures in Witold Gombrowicz and Jorge Luis Borges / Silvana Mandolessi

Arriving in Eurasia: Yoko Tawada Re-Writing Europe / Kari van Dijk

Staging a European Republic of Letters: (Supra-)National Concepts of Literature in Arno Schmidt’s Early Prose / Iannis Goerlandt

Epistle to the Europeans (On Not Reading Kipling) / Ortwin de Graef

Prodesse et Delectare: The World of National Literatures and the World of Literature / Herbert Grabes

The Late Europe: Elias Canetti and the Ordering of Time and Space in Auto Da Fé / Jeppe Ilkjær

Prague in Victorian Fiction: An Imagological Approach / Iulius Hondrila

European Identity from Normality to Immanence / Bart Keunen

Notes on Contributors.

Notes:

Title from PDF title page (viewed Feb. 5, 2008).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0549-3

1-4356-2786-5

OCLC:

191820238