It is a collection of 10 essays on the transcultural encounter between Bengal and Italy from the late 19 & 20th century. It explores the largely unknown features of a multifaceted dialogue in the fields of literature, music, architecture, art, cinema, diplomacy, entrepreneurship, travels, education and intellectual engagement.

This book analyzes individual multi-generational frameworks of Holocaust trauma to answer one essential question: How do these narratives change to not only transmit the trauma of the Holocaust but also construct the trauma as a connector to a past that needs to be continued in the present?

This book articulates a new theory of translation based on the estuary as metaphor for what translation can do at cultural and linguistic borders. It then uses the concept of "estuarine translation" as a critical lens for the study of works that either practice and/or thematize translation by selected francophone, translingual authors.

Children of Globalization is the first book-length exploration of contemporary Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels in the context of globalized and de facto multicultural societies.

This book addresses how contemporary prose fiction from Germany, Flanders, and the Netherlands deals with the memory of World War II. More in particular, it offers an investigation of how the temporal distance to the war events affects matters of form and content in these contemporary narratives.

Family Fictions and World Making: Irish and Indian Women’s Writing in the Contemporary Era is the first book-length comparative study of family novels from Ireland and India. On the one hand, despite an early as well as late colonial experience, Ireland is often viewed exclusively within a metropolitan British and Europe-centered frame. India, on the other hand, once seen as a model of decolonization for the non-Western world, has witnessed a crisis of democracy in recent years. This book charts the idea of "world making" through the fraught itineraries of the Irish and the Indian family...

Teaching in Times of Crisis explores how comparative methods that are instrumental in reading and teaching works of literature stemming from different regions around the world also provide us with tools to dissect and engage the moments of crises that permeate our contemporary political realities.

This volume brings together scholars, students and writers as well as artists from around the world. By choosing a thematic focus on "transition" in women’s lives, we present research on women who have crossed biological, geopolitical and political borders as well as emotional, sexual, cultural and linguistic boundaries. The international approach brings together different cultures and genres in order to emphasize the links and connections that bind women together, rather than those which separate them. The chapters consider the ways in which the changes and transitions women undergo...

This book demonstrates the legacies of Romanticism that animate the poetry and poetics of Eavan Boland, Gillian Clarke, John Burnside, and Kathleen Jamie.

What would world literature look like, if we stopped referring to the “West”? Starting with the provocative premise that the “‘West’ is ten percent of the planet”, World Literature Decentered is the first book to decenter Eurocentric discourses of global literature and global history – not just by deconstructing or historicizing them, but by actively providing an alternative. Looking at a series of themes across three literatures (Mexico, Turkey and Bengal), the book examines hotels, melancholy, orientalism, femicide and the ghost story in a series of literary traditions outside...