Claiming Space

Bo G. Ekelund is Professor of English at Stockholm University, Sweden. He has published articles on a variety of literary topics from a sociological perspective, in Poetics, Novel, Ariel, The International Fiction Review, and other journals.Adnan Mahmutovic is Associate Professor of English at Stockholm University, Sweden. His publications include Ways of Being Free: Authenticity and Community in Selected Works by Rushdie, Ondaatje, and Okri (2012) and Visions of the Future in Comics: International Perspectives (co-editor with Francesco Alesio Ursini and Frank Bramlett, 2017).Helena Wulff is Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research is in the anthropology of literature and writing. Among her publications are The Anthropologist as Writer: Genres and Contexts in the Twenty-First Century (2017) and Rhythms of Writing: An Anthropology of Irish Literature (Bloomsbury, 2019).

This dazzling collection of essays about world literature brings the vernacular into dialogue with the cosmopolitan. The value of this aim is now beyond dispute, what this book delivers is an account of how to do it.

• Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsSeries Introduction – The Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamic: Conjunctions of World LiteratureStefan Helgesson (Stockholm University, Sweden), Christina Kullberg (Uppsala University, Sweden), Paul Tenngart (Lund University, Sweden) and Helena Wulff (Stockholm University, Sweden)Introduction – Land, Language, Literature: Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Claims to PlaceBo G. Ekelund (Stockholm University, Sweden)1. One World Literature with Chinua Achebe and Flora NwapaPaula Uimonen (Stockholm University, Sweden)2. The Locations and Orientations of South African Literature: From Sol Plaatje to Peter AbrahamsAshleigh Harris (Uppsala University, Sweden)3. Dislocation in Ahmad Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad and Hassan Blasim’s The Madman of Freedom SquareTasnim Qutait (Uppsala University, Sweden)4. Locating the Literature of Hawai’i Sally Anderson Boström (Uppsala University, Sweden)5. Sites of Solidarity and Circuits of Second World Reading: Ralph de Boissière’s Crown Jewel and the Locations of the Proletarian Novel Bo G. Ekelund (Stockholm University, Sweden)6. Core: Ecologies of Muslim-American Writing Adnan Mahmutovic (Stockholm University, Sweden)7. Locations, Orientations and Multiple Temporalities in the Contemporary, 'Global' Latin American NovelJobst Welge (Leipzig University, Germany)8. Ambiguous Arrival: Emotions and Dislocations in the Migrant Encounter with SwedenHelena Wulff (Stockholm University, Sweden)Afterword – At Home in the WorldDeborah Reed-Danahay (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA)Index