Literature and the Making of the World

Stefan Helgesson is Professor of English Literary Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden, and a senior research associate at Rhodes University, South Africa. He currently leads the Swedish research initiative ‘Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures’.Helena Bodin is Professor of Literature in the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University, Sweden. Annika Mörte Alling is Associate Professor of French Literature at Østfold University College, Norway.

A tour de force in world literature studies. A brilliant, wide-ranging and deeply reflective account that opens up new vistas of theory and critical practice on the cosmopolitan-vernacular dynamics in world literature.

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsSeries Introduction – The Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamic: Conjunctions of World LiteratureStefan Helgesson (Stockholm University, Sweden), Christina Kulberg (Uppsala University, Sweden), Paul Tenngart (Lund University, Sweden) and Helena Wulff (Stockholm University, Sweden)Introduction – Literature and the Making of the WorldStefan Helgesson (Stockholm University, Sweden)Part 1 Worlds in Texts: Languages and Narrative1. Narrating the Crisis of Constantinople 1908–1922: A Lost World in Greek, Armenian, Turkish and RussianHelena Bodin (Stockholm University, Sweden)2. The Worlds of Multiglossia in Modern Chinese Fiction: Lu Xun’s 'A Madman’s Diary' and the 'Shaky House' Lena Rydholm (Uppsala University, Sweden)3. Writing Vulnerable Worlds: Siberian Exile and the Anthropology of World-MakingMattias Viktorin (Stockholm University, Sweden)4. The Making of Paris in Novels by Balzac and Flaubert Annika Mörte Alling (Lund University, Sweden)5. Joseph Brodsky’s Returns to Venice in Watermark: Old-World Cosmopolitanism RevisitedAnna Ljunggren (Stockholm University, Sweden)Part 2 Texts in Worlds: Production and Material Practices6. A Homemade History: Documenting the Harlem Renaissance in Alexander Gumby’s ScrapbooksIrina Rasmussen (Stockholm University, Sweden)7. The Little Magazine as a World-Making Form: Literary Distance and Political Contestation in Southern African JournalsStefan Helgesson (Stockholm University, Sweden)8. Worlds in a Tangle: The Promotion of Writing in India between the Vernacular and the GlobalPer Ståhlberg (Södertörn University, Sweden)9. Loss of Words and End of Worlds: Transitions and Troubles of Travel WritingAnette Nyqvist (Stockholm University, Sweden)Afterword – World Literature in the MakingCo-written by the contributorsIndex