World Literature and Postcolonial Studies / edited by Bhavya Tiwari and David Damrosch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tiwari, Bhavya, editor.

Damrosch, David, editor.

Series:

Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; Volume 101.

Textxet ; Volume 101

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism in literature.

Literature and globalization.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill nv, [2023]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

‎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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ISBN:

90-04-54887-4

OCLC:

1382696647