World literature and postcolonial studies / / Bhavya Tiwari

• Superior document: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature Series ; v.101
• Author: Tiwari, Bhavya
• TeilnehmendeR: Damrosch, David.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (251 pages)

Globalization has given literary studies a worldwide scope, both in postcolonial criticism and in studies of world literature. This ambitious collection explores the mutual illumination gained through the interaction of these divergent approaches to the world's literatures and cultures.

Table of Contents

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Notes on Contributors -- ‎Introduction. World Literature and Postcolonial Studies (Damrosch and Tiwari) -- ‎What Is a World (Literature)? A Conversation (Cheah and Damrosch) -- ‎Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett, World Literature, and the Colonial Comparisons (Zabel) -- ‎The Transcendental Subaltern: Private Enlightenment in Occupied Königsberg (Byrne-Taylor) -- ‎"Venerable Relics of Ancient Lore": Medieval Welsh Literature as Postcolonial World Literature (Lumbley) -- ‎The Small-Town Globalism of Ivo Andrić (Ćatović) -- ‎Abū Shādī, Tagore, and the Problem of World Literature at the Hinge of Afroeurasia (Tageldin) -- ‎Intersecting Imperialisms: The Rise and Fall of Empires in Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Holgate) -- ‎Affinities of Postcolonial Memory: Acts of Remembrance in Alex Miller and W.G. Sebald (Pree) -- ‎"Standing before You, World": Nation, Translation and World Literature in Postcolonial Syria (Behar) -- ‎The Multilingual Anglophone: World Literature and Post-Millennial Literature in Postcolonial India (Tiwari) -- ‎Multilingual Novel: Anticlimax and the Real of World Literature (Figlerowicz).