World Literature in an Age of Geopolitics

ISBN-13: 9789004546745 / Angielski

Theo D'Haen

Opis

If you want to know how globalisation affects literary studies today this is the book for you. Why has world literature become so hotly debated? How does it affect the study of national literatures? What does geopolitics have to do with literature? Does American academe still set an example for the rest of the world? Is China taking over? What about European literature? Europe’s literatures? Do “minor” European literatures get lost in the shuffle? How can authors from such literatures get noticed? Who gains and who loses in an age of world literature? If those are questions that bewilder you look no further: this book provides answers and leaves you fully equipped to dig deeper into the fascinating world of world literature in an age of geopolitics.

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Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
1 Mapping World Literature
2 Worlding World Literature
3 Why World Literature Now?
4 Major/Minor in World Literature
5 Major and Minor Players in World Literature
6 Victor Klemperer Saves Europe through Weltliteratur
7 Brussels as Transnational Node for World Literature
8 Larger than Holland: J. Slauerhoff and World Literature
9 Adventures of Mark Twain in World Literature
10 Caribbean Exile into World Literature
11 Anglo-Phone Literature as Global Literature
12 Re-orient
13 Wither European Literature?
Bibliography
Index

O autorze

Theo D'haen (Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1981 University of Massachusetts, Amherst) is Emeritus Professor from the universities of Leiden and Leuven. He has held the Erasmus Chair at Harvard, Yangtze River Professorship at the University of Sichuan, Chengdu, Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and visiting professorships at the Sorbonne and the University of Vienna. Recent publications include The Routledge Concise History of World Literature, Routledge Companion to World Literature, World Literature: A Reader (Routledge), Dutch and Flemish Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury), Crime Fiction as World Literature (Bloomsbury), Literary Transnationalism(s) (Brill), Cosmopolitanism and the Postnational: Literature and the New Europe (Brill), Major versus Minor? Languages and Literatures in a Globalized World (John Benjamins).