Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures / / ed. by Stefan Helgesson, Birgit Neumann, Gabriele Rippl.

The Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures is the first globally comprehensive attempt to chart the rich field of world literatures in English. Part I navigates different usages of the term ‘world literature’ from an historical point of view. Part II discusses a range of theoretical and methodolog...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Handbooks of English and American Studies : Text and Theory ; 13
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Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 580 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Editors’ Preface
  • Contents
  • 0 Introduction
  • Part I: Historical Approaches – Genealogies of World Literatures
  • 1 The Beginnings of the Concept (Goethe, Marx, Said) – Readings from a Postcolonial Perspective
  • 2 Re-Reading Classical Approaches from a Postcolonial Perspective: Pascale Casanova, Franco Moretti, David Damrosch
  • 3 Macaulay’s Magic Hat: The Colonial Education System and the Canon of World Literature
  • 4 The King’s English and the Mother Tongue
  • 5 Rethinking English Studies
  • Part II: Concepts and Methods of Anglophone World Literatures
  • 6 Global Literature, World Literature and Worlding Literature: Some Conceptual Differences
  • 7 Barbarians: Cosmopolitanism Beyond the Center-Periphery Model
  • 8 Anglophone World Literatures and World Ecologies (Environmental Humanities)
  • 9 Anglophone World Literatures and Transcultural Memory
  • 10 Anglophone World Literatures and Translation
  • 11 Comparative Literature
  • 12 Genres of Anglophone World Literatures
  • 13 Decolonizing World Literature through Orality
  • 14 Intermediality and Remediation
  • Part III: Sociological Approaches – Distribution, Reception and Translation of Anglophone World Literature
  • 15 Marketing Anglophone World Literatures
  • 16 Canons and Canonicity in Anglophone Literature
  • 17 Teaching Anglophone World Literature
  • 18 Anglophone World Literatures, the Internet and the Digital Humanities
  • Part IV: Literary Worlds – Locations and Orientations
  • 19 Britain
  • 20 Ireland
  • 21 USA
  • 22 Canada
  • 23 The Oceans
  • 24 The Caribbean
  • 25 Southern Africa
  • 26 West Africa
  • 27 East Africa
  • 28 South Asia
  • 29 Southeast Asia (Hong Kong and Singapore)
  • 30 Australia
  • 31 New Zealand Literature and the World
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index
  • List of Contributors