New Comparisons in World Literature – serie
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Contemporary World Narrative Fiction and the Spaces of Neoliberalism
Inbunden, 2016
947 kr
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This book is a transnational study of how contemporary fiction writers from the United States and Canada to Nigeria to India to Dubai have conceptualized the emergent social spaces of the diverse corners of the neoliberal world system. Over the span of the past three to four decades, free market …
Postcolonial Literatures in the Local Literary Marketplace
Located Reading
Av Jenni Ramone
Inbunden, 2020
1760 kr
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This book asks what reading means in India, Nigeria, the UK, and Cuba, through close readings of literary texts from postcolonial, spatial, architectural, cartographic, materialist, trauma, and gender perspectives. It contextualises these close readings through new interpretations of local literary …
World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of Discontent
Av Sharae Deckard, Stephen Shapiro
Inbunden, 2019
1438 kr
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This book explains neoliberalism as a phenomenon of the capitalist world-system. Many writers focus on the cultural or ideological symptoms of neoliberalism only when they are experienced in Europe and America. This collection seeks to restore globalized capitalism as the primary object of critique …
Multilingualism and the Twentieth-Century Novel
Polyglot Passages
Inbunden, 2019
901 kr
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This book argues that the Anglophone novel in the twentieth century is, in fact, always multilingual. Rooting its analysis in modern Europe and the Caribbean, it recognises that monolingualism, not multilingualism, is a historical and global rarity, and argues that this fact must inform our study …
Literary Translation and Cultural Mediators in 'Peripheral' Cultures
Customs Officers or Smugglers?
Av Diana Roig-Sanz, Reine Meylaerts
Häftad, 2019
1080 kr
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This book sets the grounds for a new approach exploring cultural mediators as key figures in literary and cultural history. It proposes an innovative conceptual and methodological understanding of the figure of the cultural mediator, defined as a cultural actor active across linguistic, cultural …
Postcolonial Modernity and the Indian Novel
On Catastrophic Realism
Inbunden, 2020
605 kr
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This book argues that modernity in postcolonial India has been synonymous with catastrophe and crisis. Focusing on the literary works of the 1943 Bengal Famine, the 1967–72 Naxalbari Movement, and the 1975–77 Indian Emergency, it shows that there is a long-term, colonially-engineered agrarian …
Postcolonial Modernity and the Indian Novel
On Catastrophic Realism
Häftad, 2021
605 kr
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This book argues that modernity in postcolonial India has been synonymous with catastrophe and crisis. Focusing on the literary works of the 1943 Bengal Famine, the 1967–72 Naxalbari Movement, and the 1975–77 Indian Emergency, it shows that there is a long-term, colonially-engineered agrarian …
World Literature and Ecology
The Aesthetics of Commodity Frontiers, 1890-1950
Inbunden, 2020
963 kr
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Located at the intersection of world-literary studies and the environmental humanities, this book analyses how fiction and poetry respond to the ecological transformations entailed by commodity frontiers. Examining the sugar, cacao, coal, and oil frontiers in Trinidad, Brazil, and Britain, World …
World Literature and Ecology
The Aesthetics of Commodity Frontiers, 1890-1950
Häftad, 2021
963 kr
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Located at the intersection of world-literary studies and the environmental humanities, this book analyses how fiction and poetry respond to the ecological transformations entailed by commodity frontiers. Examining the sugar, cacao, coal, and oil frontiers in Trinidad, Brazil, and Britain, World …
Global Novel and Capitalism in Crisis
Contemporary Literary Narratives
Inbunden, 2020
1023 kr
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This book examines how contemporary global novels by Salman Rushdie, David Mitchell, Rana Dasgupta and Rachel Kushner have evolved new aesthetics to represent global economic and ecological crises. Paying close attention to the interrelations between postcolonial, world, and global literatures, …
Global Novel and Capitalism in Crisis
Contemporary Literary Narratives
Häftad, 2021
1023 kr
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This book examines how contemporary global novels by Salman Rushdie, David Mitchell, Rana Dasgupta and Rachel Kushner have evolved new aesthetics to represent global economic and ecological crises. Paying close attention to the interrelations between postcolonial, world, and global literatures, …
World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time
Inbunden, 2020
605 kr
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Drawing on a Marxist concept of world literature, this book is a study of the manipulations of time in contemporary anglophone fiction from Africa and South Asia. Through critical work and literary reading, this research explores the times other than the present that seem to haunt an era of …
World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time
Häftad, 2021
605 kr
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Drawing on a Marxist concept of world literature, this book is a study of the manipulations of time in contemporary anglophone fiction from Africa and South Asia. Through critical work and literary reading, this research explores the times other than the present that seem to haunt an era of …
Worlding of the South African Novel
Spaces of Transition
Av Jane Poyner
Inbunden, 2020
605 kr
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The Worlding of the South African Novel develops from something of a paradox: that despite momentous political transition from apartheid to democracy, little in South Africa’s socio-economic reality has actually changed. Poyner discusses how the contemporary South African novel engages with this …
Worlding of the South African Novel
Spaces of Transition
Av Jane Poyner
Häftad, 2021
605 kr
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The Worlding of the South African Novel develops from something of a paradox: that despite momentous political transition from apartheid to democracy, little in South Africa’s socio-economic reality has actually changed. Poyner discusses how the contemporary South African novel engages with this …
Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel
Fictions of the State under Neoliberalism
Inbunden, 2021
1202 kr
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This book examines the representation of dictators and dictatorships in African fiction. It examines how the texts clarify the origins of postcolonial dictatorships and explore the shape of the democratic-egalitarian alternatives. The first chapter explains the ‘neoliberal’ period after the 1970s …
Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel
Fictions of the State under Neoliberalism
Häftad, 2022
1202 kr
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This book examines the representation of dictators and dictatorships in African fiction. It examines how the texts clarify the origins of postcolonial dictatorships and explore the shape of the democratic-egalitarian alternatives. The first chapter explains the ‘neoliberal’ period after the 1970s …
Writing Ocean Worlds
Indian Ocean Fiction in English
Inbunden, 2021
801 kr
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This book explores the Indian Ocean world as it is produced by colonial and postcolonial fiction in English. It analyses the work of three contemporary authors who write the Indian Ocean as a region and world—Amitav Ghosh, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Lindsey Collen—alongside maritime-imperial precursor …
Writing Ocean Worlds
Indian Ocean Fiction in English
Häftad, 2023
801 kr
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This book explores the Indian Ocean world as it is produced by colonial and postcolonial fiction in English. It analyses the work of three contemporary authors who write the Indian Ocean as a region and world—Amitav Ghosh, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Lindsey Collen—alongside maritime-imperial precursor …
Modernism in the Peripheral Metropolis
Form, Crisis and the City in Latin America
Av Tavid Mulder
Inbunden, 2023
1322 kr
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This book shows how Latin American writers and artists in the crisis-decades of the 1920s and 1930s used modernist techniques to explore national issues in relation to global capitalism. Drawing on a rich interdisciplinary archive of novels, poetry, essays, photography, and architecture, it …
Modernism in the Peripheral Metropolis
Form, Crisis and the City in Latin America
Av Tavid Mulder
Häftad, 2024
1322 kr
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This book shows how Latin American writers and artists in the crisis-decades of the 1920s and 1930s used modernist techniques to explore national issues in relation to global capitalism. Drawing on a rich interdisciplinary archive of novels, poetry, essays, photography, and architecture, it …
Comparative Modernism and Poetics of Time
Bergson, Tanpinar, Benjamin, Walser
Inbunden, 2023
1322 kr
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This book explores the conceptualization of time in early twentieth-century literature and thought, based on a transnational and translational model of literary history, focusing on Turkish, French and German literary traditions. Each from different cultural backgrounds, these modernists provide a …
Comparative Modernism and Poetics of Time
Bergson, Tanpinar, Benjamin, Walser
Häftad, 2024
1322 kr
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This book explores the conceptualization of time in early twentieth-century literature and thought, based on a transnational and translational model of literary history, focusing on Turkish, French and German literary traditions. Each from different cultural backgrounds, these modernists provide a …
Ethnographic Narratives as World Literature
Uneven Entanglements in European and South Asian Writing
Inbunden, 2023
1322 kr
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This book links world-literary studies with anthropology and ethnography. It shows how ethnographic narratives can represent a compelling point of departure for world-literary explorations. The volume compares the travel writing and fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling as colonial …
Ethnographic Narratives as World Literature
Uneven Entanglements in European and South Asian Writing
Häftad, 2024
1322 kr
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This book links world-literary studies with anthropology and ethnography. It shows how ethnographic narratives can represent a compelling point of departure for world-literary explorations. The volume compares the travel writing and fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling as colonial …
Re-Reading Tragic Africa
Development, Neoliberalism and Contemporary Fiction
Av Amy Rushton
Inbunden, 2024
1322 kr
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Grounded in world-systemic analysis, this book revisits the literary and social implications of ‘tragedy’ in relation to global narratives about Africa and within fiction by writers from the continent. It argues that working through the full complexity of ‘tragedy’ helps to identify and challenge …
Re-Reading Tragic Africa
Development, Neoliberalism and Contemporary Fiction
Av Amy Rushton
Häftad, 2025
1322 kr
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Grounded in world-systemic analysis, this book revisits the literary and social implications of ‘tragedy’ in relation to global narratives about Africa and within fiction by writers from the continent. It argues that working through the full complexity of ‘tragedy’ helps to identify and challenge …
Economic Informality and World Literature
Av Josh Jewell
Inbunden, 2024
1322 kr
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This book analyses the impact of economic informality on the novel form across the modern world-system, looking specifically at works by Antonio de Almeida, Machado de Assis, Dany Laferrière, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Nadine Gordimer, and Masande Ntshanga. It sees the representation of informal economies …
Economic Informality and World Literature
Av Josh Jewell
Häftad, 2025
1322 kr
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This book analyses the impact of economic informality on the novel form across the modern world-system, looking specifically at works by Antonio de Almeida, Machado de Assis, Dany Laferrière, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Nadine Gordimer, and Masande Ntshanga. It sees the representation of informal economies …
Semi-Peripheral Realism
Nation and Form on the Borders of Europe
Inbunden, 2024
1322 kr
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This book explores the geopolitical and symbolic borders of Europe through the concept of the semi-periphery. Focusing on the North Atlantic island nations, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, and Turkey – a set of very different social and cultural landscapes – the book compares the semi-peripheral …
