Cosmopolitanism and the Postnational : Literature and the New Europe / / César Domínguez and Theo D'haen.

• Superior document: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; 79
• Author: Domƒinguez, Cƒesar.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature 79.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In recent years postnational theory has become a primary tool for the analysis of European integration. Though interpretations of the concept vary, there is a wide consensus about postnationalism as a way to forge a European identity beyond a particular national history. In line with the German historical context in which this key concept was formulated in the first place, postnationalism is considered to be an adaptation of Kantian cosmopolitanism to the conditions of the modern world. This collection of essays is the first to systematically and comparatively explore the links between postnationalism and cosmopolitanism within the context of the “New Europe”. Contributors: Susana Araújo, Sibylle Baumbach, Helena Buescu, John Crosetti, Maria DiBattista, César Domínguez, Soren Frank, Birgit Mara Kaiser, Dorothy Odartey-Wellington, Maria Esteves Pereira, Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Aysegul Turan.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / César Domínguez and Theo D’haen -- “Introduction” / César Domínguez -- “Europe between Old and New: Cosmopolitanism Reconsidered” / Helena Buescu -- “Local Rooms with a Cosmopolitan View? Novels in/on the Limits of European Convergence” / César Domínguez -- “Rooting “New European Literature”: A Reconsideration of the European Myth of the Postnational and Cynical Cosmopolitanism” / Sibylle Baumbach -- “Native Cosmopolitans” / Maria DiBattista -- “European Security, European Identity? Fictions of Terror and Transnationality” / Susana Araújo -- “Globalization, Migration literature, and the New Europe” / Søren Frank -- “Towards a New Europe? On Emergent and Transcultural Literary Histories” / Karen-Margrethe Simonsen -- “Europeanization, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Cases in the Crime Fiction of Poe, Gadda and Simenon” / John Crosetti -- “The Spaces of Transnational Literature: Or, Where on Earth Are We with Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Der Hof im Spiegel?” / Birgit Mara Kaiser -- “Postnational or Postcolonial? Reading Immigrant Writing in Postnational Europe: The Case of Equatorial Guinea and Spain” / Dorothy Odartey-Wellington -- “A Transnational and Transcultural Perspective: Transcending the “Englishness” of English Literature” / Margarida Esteves Pereira -- “How to Become a “Rudeboy”: Identity Formation and Transformation in Londonstani” / Aysegul Turan -- Notes on Contributors / César Domínguez and Theo D’haen.