Cosmopolitanism and the Postnational

César Domínguez is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela, where he holds the Jean Monnet Chair “The Culture of European Integration”. His teaching and research focus upon theory of comparative literature, European studies, comparative studies in medieval literatures, cosmopolitanism, and world literature. In addition to numerous articles and books on these topics, he is co-editor of the ICLA Coordinating Committee’s two-volume Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula. He is secretary of the ICLA Coordinating Committee, chair of the ICLA Research Committee, member of the Academia Europaea, and vice-president of the Spanish Comparative Literature Association.Theo D’haen is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Leuven University, Belgium, and earlier taught at Utrecht and Leiden, in The Netherlands. He has published widely on literatures in European languages, (post)modernism, (post)colonialism), and world literature. Recent English-language publications comprise, as author, The Routledge Concise History of World Literature (Routledge 2012) and American Literature: A History (Routledge 2014, with Hans Bertens), and as editor, Caribbeing: Comparing Caribbean Literatures and Cultures (Rodopi 2014, with Kristian van Haesendonck), World Literature: A Reader (Routledge 2013, with César Domínguez and Mads Rosendahl Thomsen), and The Routledge Companion to World Literature(Routledge 2012, with David Damrosch and Djelal Kadir).

“Those wondering about the future of Europe, given the recent political and social difficulties the continent has faced, might be well-advised to turn to César Domínguez and Theo D’haen’s timely collection of essays for possible answers.” - Audrey Louckx, Université de Mons, Belgium, in: Recherche Littéraire/Literary Research, Vol. 33 (2017), pp.218-224

• Table of ContentsCésar Domínguez. “Introduction”Part 1. Challenging Postnationalism/CosmopolitanismHelena Buescu. “Europe between Old and New: Cosmopolitanism Reconsidered”César Domínguez. “Local Rooms with a Cosmopolitan View? Novels in/on the Limits of European Convergence”Sibylle Baumbach. “Rooting “New European Literature”: A Reconsideration of the European Myth of the Postnational and Cynical Cosmopolitanism”Maria DiBattista. “Native Cosmopolitans”Part 2. What’s New in European Literature?Susana Araújo. “European Security, European Identity? Fictions of Terror and Transnationality”Søren Frank. “Globalization, Migration literature, and the New Europe”Karen-Margrethe Simonsen. “Towards a New Europe? On Emergent and Transcultural Literary Histories”Part 3. Test Cases on Postnationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the New EuropeJohn Crosetti. “Europeanization, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Cases in the Crime Fiction of Poe, Gadda and Simenon”Birgit Mara Kaiser. “The Spaces of Transnational Literature: Or, Where on Earth Are We with Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Der Hof im Spiegel?”Dorothy Odartey-Wellington. “Postnational or Postcolonial? Reading Immigrant Writing in Postnational Europe: The Case of Equatorial Guinea and Spain”Margarida Esteves Pereira. “A Transnational and Transcultural Perspective: Transcending the “Englishness” of English Literature”Aysegul Turan. “How to Become a “Rudeboy”: Identity Formation and Transformation in Londonstani”