Jesse van Amelsvoort is Lecturer in Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Post National Worlds in Contemporary European Literature is a groundbreaking and indispensable work for anyone interested in how today’s literary landscapes reimagine the ideas of nation and globalization—actively reshaping what Europe means, for whom, and in which voices. Jesse van Amelsvoort demonstrates that literature—across languages and borders—continues to be a vital space for negotiating identities and belonging, and for envisioning new communities and connections. By weaving together minority studies, world literature, and European studies, this book reveals how post-national literary scenarios emerge not in spite of Europe’s linguistic and cultural fractures but through them, and are compelling reconfigurations of the European project itself. This is world literature grounded in lived multiplicity—rooted, relational, and politically urgent. A timely and necessary intervention.

• Introduction1 ‘Writing is a Way to be Free’ 2 Breaking the Mould 3 Pulling Apart and Bringing Together 4 Minoritized Writers’ Spaces 5 Beyond the Nation Conclusion Bibliography

Jesse van Amelsvoort is Lecturer in Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Post National Worlds in Contemporary European Literature is a groundbreaking and indispensable work for anyone interested in how today’s literary landscapes reimagine the ideas of nation and globalization—actively reshaping what Europe means, for whom, and in which voices. Jesse van Amelsvoort demonstrates that literature—across languages and borders—continues to be a vital space for negotiating identities and belonging, and for envisioning new communities and connections. By weaving together minority studies, world literature, and European studies, this book reveals how post-national literary scenarios emerge not in spite of Europe’s linguistic and cultural fractures but through them, and are compelling reconfigurations of the European project itself. This is world literature grounded in lived multiplicity—rooted, relational, and politically urgent. A timely and necessary intervention.

• Introduction1 ‘Writing is a Way to be Free’ 2 Breaking the Mould 3 Pulling Apart and Bringing Together 4 Minoritized Writers’ Spaces 5 Beyond the Nation Conclusion Bibliography

Jesse van Amelsvoort is Lecturer in Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Post National Worlds in Contemporary European Literature is a groundbreaking and indispensable work for anyone interested in how today’s literary landscapes reimagine the ideas of nation and globalization—actively reshaping what Europe means, for whom, and in which voices. Jesse van Amelsvoort demonstrates that literature—across languages and borders—continues to be a vital space for negotiating identities and belonging, and for envisioning new communities and connections. By weaving together minority studies, world literature, and European studies, this book reveals how post-national literary scenarios emerge not in spite of Europe’s linguistic and cultural fractures but through them, and are compelling reconfigurations of the European project itself. This is world literature grounded in lived multiplicity—rooted, relational, and politically urgent. A timely and necessary intervention.

• Introduction1 ‘Writing is a Way to be Free’ 2 Breaking the Mould 3 Pulling Apart and Bringing Together 4 Minoritized Writers’ Spaces 5 Beyond the Nation Conclusion Bibliography