Combining analysis with detailed accounts of authors' careers and the global trade in literature, this book assesses how postcolonial writers respond to their own reception and niche positioning, ...parading their exotic otherness to metropolitan audiences, within a global marketplace.
How are modernity, coloniality, and interimperiality
entangled? Bridging the humanities and social sciences,
Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă provide innovative decolonial
perspectives that aim to ...creolize modernity and the modern
world-system. Historical Transylvania, at the intersection of the
Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Russia,
offers the platform for their multi-level reading of the main
themes in Liviu Rebreanu's 1920 novel Ion . Topics range
from the question of the region's capitalist integration to
antisemitism and the enslavement of Roma to multilingualism, gender
relations, and religion. Creolizing the Modern develops a
comparative method for engaging with areas of the world that have
inherited multiple, conflicting imperial and anti-imperial
histories.
How much choice do you have in life? Charles Dickens's dramatisation of the relationship between characters and their audiences within his novels reflects upon us: in spectating spectators, readers ...engage in a dynamic of sameness and difference that will define and decide the struggle for choice in our own lives.
This book elucidates how Three Kingdoms, a Chinese historical novel, has played a major role in shaping the Korean national self-image by examining how its text has been altered, manipulated, and ...transformed by the ideological preferences of the Korean readers from the Chŏson era to the present day.
In the twenty-first century, terms such as globalization, global, and world function as key words at the cusp of new frontiers in both historical writing and literary criticism. Practitioners of ...these disciplines may appear to be long time intimate lovers when seen from pre and early modern time periods, only to divorce with the coming of Anglophone world history in the twenty-first century. In recent years, works such as Martin Puchner's The Written World , Maya Jasanoff's The Dawn Watch , or the three novels that encompass Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy , have rekindled a variant of history and literature's embrace in a global register. This book probes recent scholarship concerning reflections on global history and world literature in the wake of these developments, with a primary focus on India as a site of extensive theoretical and empirical advances in both disciplinary locations. Inclusive of reflections on the meeting points of these disciplines as well as original research in areas such as Neo-Platonism in world history, histories of violence, and literary histories exploring indentured labor and capitalist transformation, the book offers reflections on conceptual advances in the study of globalization by placing global history and world literature in conversation.
Latin American Literature at the Millennium analyzes literary constructions of locality from the early 1990s to the mid-2010s. In this astute study, Raynor reads work by Roberto Bolaño, Valeria ...Luiselli, Luiz Ruffato, Bernardo Carvalho, João Gilberto Noll, and Wilson Bueno to reveal representations of the human experience that unsettle conventionally understood links between locality and geographical place. The book raises vital considerations for understanding the region’s transition into the twenty-first century, and for evaluating Latin American authors’ representations of everyday place and modes of belonging. It further examines relevant theory on globalization and historical context, discussing the political and economic forces at work in Latin America’s engagement with global processes. Across chapters, Raynor traces localizing techniques in canonical works as well as understudied and peripheral texts, deftly exploring the “local” as a plural concept constructed through language, memory, and attachment to place.
From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid changes
Literary studies are being transformed today by ...the expansive and disruptive forces of globalization. More works than ever circulate worldwide in English and in translation, and even national traditions are increasingly seen in transnational terms. To encompass this expanding literary universe, scholars and teachers need to expand their linguistic and cultural resources, rethink their methods and training, and reconceive the place of literature and criticism in the world. InComparing the Literatures, David Damrosch integrates comparative, postcolonial, and world-literary perspectives to offer a comprehensive overview of comparative studies and its prospects in a time of great upheaval and great opportunity.
Comparing the Literatures looks both at institutional forces and at key episodes in the life and work of comparatists who have struggled to define and redefine the terms of literary analysis over the past two centuries, from Johann Gottfried Herder and Germaine de Staël to Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Franco Moretti, and Emily Apter. With literary examples ranging from Ovid and Kālidāsa to James Joyce, Yoko Tawada, and the internet artists Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Damrosch shows how the main strands of comparison-philology, literary theory, colonial and postcolonial studies, and the study of world literature-have long been intertwined. A deeper understanding of comparative literature's achievements, persistent contradictions, and even failures can help comparatists in literature and other fields develop creative responses to today's most important questions and debates.
Amid a multitude of challenges and new possibilities for comparative literature,Comparing the Literatures provides an important road map for the discipline's revitalization.
Anne of Tim Hortons Wyile, Herb
Anne of Tim Hortons,
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A study of the work of over twenty contemporary Atlantic-Canadian writers that counters the widespread impression of Atlantic Canada as a quaint and backward place. By examining their treatment of ...work, culture, and history, it highlights how these writers resist the image of Atlantic Canadians as improvident and regressive, if charming, folk.
