Handbook of anglophone world literatures / edited by Stefan Helgesson, Birgit Neumann, Gabriele Rippl.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Helgesson, Stefan, editor.

Neumann, Birgit, 1974- editor.

Rippl, Gabriele, editor.

Series:

Handbooks of English and American studies ; Volume 13.

Handbooks of English and American studies ; Volume 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (IX, 580 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures is the first globally comprehensive attempt to chart the rich field of world literatures in English. Part I navigates different usages of the term ‘world literature’ from an historical point of view. Part II discusses a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to world literature. This is also where the handbook’s conceptualisation of ‘Anglophone world literatures’ – in the plural – is developed and interrogated in juxtaposition with proximate fields of inquiry such as postcolonialism, translation studies, memory studies and environmental humanities. Part III charts sociological approaches to Anglophone world literatures, considering their commodification, distribution, translation and canonisation on the international book market. Part IV, finally, is dedicated to the geographies of Anglophone world literatures and provides sample interpretations of literary texts written in English.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Editors’ Preface

Contents

0 Introduction

1 The Beginnings of the Concept (Goethe, Marx, Said) – Readings from a Postcolonial Perspective

2 Re-Reading Classical Approaches from a Postcolonial Perspective: Pascale Casanova, Franco Moretti, David Damrosch

3 Macaulay’s Magic Hat: The Colonial Education System and the Canon of World Literature

4 The King’s English and the Mother Tongue

5 Rethinking English Studies

6 Global Literature, World Literature and Worlding Literature: Some Conceptual Differences

7 Barbarians: Cosmopolitanism Beyond the Center-Periphery Model

8 Anglophone World Literatures and World Ecologies (Environmental Humanities)

9 Anglophone World Literatures and Transcultural Memory

10 Anglophone World Literatures and Translation

11 Comparative Literature

12 Genres of Anglophone World Literatures

13 Decolonizing World Literature through Orality

14 Intermediality and Remediation

15 Marketing Anglophone World Literatures

16 Canons and Canonicity in Anglophone Literature

17 Teaching Anglophone World Literature

18 Anglophone World Literatures, the Internet and the Digital Humanities

19 Britain

20 Ireland

21 USA

22 Canada

23 The Oceans

24 The Caribbean

25 Southern Africa

26 West Africa

27 East Africa

28 South Asia

29 Southeast Asia (Hong Kong and Singapore)

30 Australia

31 New Zealand Literature and the World

Name Index

Subject Index

List of Contributors

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9783110580945

3110580942

9783110583182

3110583186

OCLC:

1197567603