When both France and Holland rejected the proposed constitution for the European Union in 2005, the votes reflected popular anxieties about the entry of Turkey into the European Union as much as they did ambivalence over ceding national sovereignty. Indeed, the votes in France and Holland echoed long standing tensions between Europe and Turkey. If there was any question that tensions were high, the explosive reaction of Europe s Muslim population to a series of cartoons of Mohammed in a Danish newspaper put them to rest. "Cosmopolitical Claims "is a profoundly original study of the works of...
When both France and Holland rejected the proposed constitution for the European Union in 2005, the votes reflected popular anxieties about the entry ...
From the current vantage point of the transformation of books and libraries, B. Venkat Mani presents a historical account of world literature. By locating translation, publication, and circulation along routes of "bibliomigrancy"--the physical and virtual movement of books--Mani narrates how world literature is coded and recoded as literary works find new homes on faraway bookshelves. Mani argues that the proliferation of world literature in a society is the function of a nation's relationship with print culture--a Faustian pact with books. Moving from early Orientalist collections, to...
From the current vantage point of the transformation of books and libraries, B. Venkat Mani presents a historical account of world literature. By loca...