The locations of (world) literature / edited by Francesca Orsini, Laetitia Zecchini.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Orsini, Francesca, editor.

Zecchini, Laetitia, editor.

Series:

Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 0927-5754 v. 109.

Textxet, 0927-5754 ; v 109

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Developing countries--Literatures--History and criticism.

Developing countries.

Developing countries--In literature.

Place (Philosophy) in literature.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

ix, 261 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill 2025.

Summary:

"Location matters, for critics, readers and texts. This book explores the notion of location not simply as geographical, historical, or cultural context but as a standpoint, a position, an orientation, a necessarily partial and particular perspective, however ample it may be, from which writers represent and imagine their worlds. However, the constraint of location in the form of a reductive geographical marker has been felt most acutely by writers of the Global South. This book explores how modern and contemporary writers from Africa and South Asia consider their place in the world, in world literature, and in the wider geographical regions or national literary histories to which their work is identified with. What worlds do these literatures simultaneously inhabit and create? What networks do writers and institutions, specific genres and works of literature, but also circuits of readership, translation and publishing, produce? And what are the imagined or discrepant geographies, the different cosmopolitanisms, that may be invented in the process? This ground-up approach - from Lagos, Algier, Niamey, Addis Ababa or Allahabad; in English and in French but also in Swahili, Malayalam, Amharic, Urdu, Arabic, Persian, or Pulaar - can pluralize a map whose entanglements and complexities face the risk of being ironed out by reified conceptualizations of literature within global macro-systems"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Francesca Orsini and Laetitia Zecchini

Seeing through the Concept of World Literature / Peter McDonald

Cosmopolitanism, Literary Nationalisms and Linguistic Activism : A Multi-local Perspective on Pulaar / Mélanie Bourlet

The Locations and Dislocations of Persian Genius : Emerson’s Bardification of Hafiz / Fatima Burney

World Literature, Indian Views / Francesca Orsini

Assembling and Disassembling Indian Literature : From the PEN All-India Centre to Arvind Krishna Mehrotra / Laetitia Zecchini

Worlds of Advice: Going Places with Nazir Ahmad / Soofia Siddique

Intellectual and Literary History in Post-War Ethiopia (1940s-1950s) : Käbbädä Mikael’s Experiments in Nationalist Worldmaking / Sara Marzagora

World Visions in Swahili Literature / Xavier Garnier

The Literary World of the North African Taghrība : Novelization, Locatedness and World Literature / Karima Laachir

On Islands and Deserts : Algerian Appropriations of the World / Tristan Leperlier

African Cultural Festivals and World Literature : From Map to Territory / Claire Ducournau.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Locations of (world) literature

ISBN:

9789004705821

9004705821

OCLC:

1467671511

Publisher Number:

9789004705821