World Literature and Postcolonial Studies (Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, 101)

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. ‎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) What is the role of literature in our global landscape today? How do local authors respond to the growing worldwide power of English and the persisting effects of the colonial systems that paved the way for globalization today? These questions have often been approached very differently by postcolonialists and by students of world literature, but over the past two decades, a developing dialogue between these divergent approaches has produced robust scholarship and sometimes fractious debate, as issues of language, politics, and cultural difference have come to the fore. Drawing on a wide variety of cases, from medieval Wales to contemporary Syria and Australia, and on works written in Arabic, Basque, English, Hindi, and more, this collection explores the mutual illumination that can be gained through the interaction of postcolonial and world literary perspectives.