World literature and postcolonial studies / edited by Bhavya Tiwari, David Damrosch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tiwari, Bhavya, editor.

Damrosch, David, editor.

Series:

Textxet : studies in comparative literature, 0927-5754 ; volume 101

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism in literature.

Literature and globalization.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 239 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

"What is the role of literature in our global landscape today? How do local authors respond to the growing worldwide power of English and the persisting effects of the colonial systems that paved the way for globalization today? These questions have often been approached very differently by postcolonialists and by students of world literature, but over the past two decades, a developing dialogue between these divergent approaches has produced robust scholarship and sometimes fractious debate, as issues of language, politics, and cultural difference have come to the fore. Drawing on a wide variety of cases, from medieval Wales to contemporary Syria and Australia, and on works written in Arabic, Basque, English, Hindi, and more, this collection explores the mutual illumination that can be gained through the interaction of postcolonial and world literary perspectives"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : world literature and postcolonial studies / David Damrosch and Bhavya Tiwari

"Standing before you, world" : nation, translation and world literature in postcolonial Syria / Daniel Behar

The small-town globalism of Ivo Andrić / Vedran Catović

What is a world (literature)? A conversation / Pheng Cheah and David Damrosch

Multilingual novel : anticlimax and the real of world literature / Matylda Figlerowtiz

Intersecting imperialisms : the rise and fall of empires in Richard Flanagan's The narrow road to the deep north / Ben Holgate

"Venerable relics of ancient lore" : Medieval Welsh literature as postcolonial world literature / Coral Lumbley

Affinities of postcolonial memory : acts of remembrance in Alex Miller and W.G. Sebald / Nathanael Pree

Abū Shādī, Tagore, and the problem of world literature at the hinge of Afroeurasia / Shaden M. Tageldin

The transcendental subaltern : private enlightenment in occupied Königsberg / Byron Taylor

The multilingual anglophone : world literature and post-millennial literature in postcolonial India / Bhavya Tiwari

Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett, world literature, and the colonial comparisons / Blaž Zabel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: World literature and postcolonial studies

ISBN:

9789004547230

9004547231

OCLC:

1374586465