Cambridge Studies in World Literature – serie
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South Asian Writers, Latin American Literature, and the Rise of Global English
Häftad, 2025
504 kr
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Ever since T.B. Macaulay leveled the accusation in 1835 that 'a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India,' South Asian literature has served as the imagined battleground between local linguistic multiplicity and a rapidly globalizing English. In …
The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature
Häftad, 2025
504 kr
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The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature unearths a buried African archive within widely-read Latinx writers of the last fifty years. It challenges dominant narratives in World Literature and transatlantic studies that ignore Africa's impact in broader Latin American culture. Sarah …
Reorienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry
Inbunden, 2022
1554 kr
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Re-orienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry is the first book to systematically study the parallel development of modernist poetry in Arabic and Persian. It presents a fresh line of comparative inquiry into minor literatures within the field of world literary studies. Focusing on …
China in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century African Literature
Inbunden, 2023
1831 kr
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China in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century African Literature unpacks the long-standing complexity of exchanges between Africans and Chinese as far back as the Cold War and beyond. This scope encompasses how China, which emerged as a main engine of the world economy by the end of the twentieth …
Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism
Inbunden, 2023
1685 kr
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At the height of literary nationalisms in the twentieth century, leftist internationalists from Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, and the Soviet East bonded over their shared love of the classical Persian verses of Hafiz and Khayyam. At writers' congresses and in communist literary journals, they …
Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters
Inbunden, 2024
515 kr
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In a radical and ambitious reconceptualization of the field, this book argues that global literary culture since the eighteenth century was fundamentally shaped by colonial histories. It offers a comprehensive account of the colonial inception of the literary sovereign - how the realm of literature …
V. S. Naipaul and World Literature
Av Vijay Mishra
Inbunden, 2024
1649 kr
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V. S. Naipaul is a major and controversial figure in postcolonial and world literature. This book provides a challenging and uncompromisingly honest study that engages with history, genre theory, aesthetics, and global literary culture, with close reference to Naipaul's published and archival …
Arab Nationalism, Decolonization and the Making of a Transregional Literature
Inbunden, 2026
1797 kr
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What makes Arabic literature, Arabic? Casting critical new light on area-based approaches, this comparative study tracks the diverse literary practices in Arabic and French that, during and after decolonization, writers on both sides of North Africa and the Middle East used to found a transregional …
The Indian Ocean and the Historical Imagination in Afro-Asian Fiction
Inbunden, 2026
1797 kr
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The Indian Ocean has long connected people, objects, and ideas across continents and cultures. This book asks how contemporary writers reimagine the Indian Ocean through literary figurations of the past. In doing so, it offers an oceanic perspective for rethinking the paradigms of postcolonialism …
Five Economies of World Literature
Av Sandor Hites
Inbunden, 2026
1797 kr
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Five Economies of World Literature is a comprehensive revision of nineteenth-century conceptualizations of 'world literature' in view of their intersections with economic thought. The book demonstrates that with a routinized identification of world literature as the cultural manifestation of modern …
The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures
Inbunden, 2026
1797 kr
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The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures is the first book that examines the concept of risk in non-anglophone world literature. Focusing on how risk is produced and reshaped by literary aesthetics, Li argues that risk is a creative rather than negative force in world literature. …
Modernism, Existentialism, and the Aesthetics of the Postcolony
Inbunden, 2026
1797 kr
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How did writers reimagine self and nation in the postcolonial moment? After the brutalities of partition and the triumph of Independence, decolonization in South Asia unfolded in a dramatic sense of disillusion and alienation. In this transnational study, Toral Gajarawala explores the cultural …
Modernism, Existentialism, and the Aesthetics of the Postcolony
Häftad, 2026
608 kr
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How did writers reimagine self and nation in the postcolonial moment? After the brutalities of partition and the triumph of Independence, decolonization in South Asia unfolded in a dramatic sense of disillusion and alienation. In this transnational study, Toral Gajarawala explores the cultural …
South Asian Writers, Latin American Literature, and the Rise of Global English
Inbunden, 2022
1554 kr
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Ever since T.B. Macaulay leveled the accusation in 1835 that 'a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India,' South Asian literature has served as the imagined battleground between local linguistic multiplicity and a rapidly globalizing English. In …
The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature
Inbunden, 2022
1554 kr
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The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature unearths a buried African archive within widely-read Latinx writers of the last fifty years. It challenges dominant narratives in World Literature and transatlantic studies that ignore Africa's impact in broader Latin American culture. Sarah …
