Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South scrutinizes current debates to bring historical and contemporary South-South entanglements to the fore and to develop a new understanding of world literature in a multipolar world of globalized modernity. The volume challenges established ideas of world literature by rethinking the concept along the notion of “entanglements”: as a field of variously criss-crossing relations of literary activity beyond the confines of literary canons, cultural containers, or national borders.
The collection presents individual case studies from a variety of language traditions that focus on particular literary relationships and practices across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe as well as new fictional, poetical, and theoretical conceptions of world literature in order to broaden our understanding of the multilateral entanglements within a widening communicative network that shape our globalized world.
Andrea Gremels
Andrea Gremels is a researcher and lecturer of Francophone and Hispanic Literatures and Cultures at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Goethe University Frankfurt. She has published widely on Caribbean and Latin American literature, film, and other media, transcultural studies, postcolonial theory, and international surrealism. She is Executive Board member of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism (ISSS) and a former Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Paris and Berlin.
Maren Scheurer
Maren Scheurer is a researcher and lecturer at the Department for Comparative Literature at Goethe University Frankfurt. She is author of Transferences: The Aesthetics and Poetics of the Therapeutic Relationship, and she has published essays on psychoanalysis, literature, and other media as well as late-nineteenth-century transformations of realism in a wide range of journals and edited collections. With Aimee Pozorski, she serves as executive co-editor of Philip Roth Studies.
Frank Schulze-Engler
Frank Schulze-Engler is professor of New Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the Institute of English and American Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. He has published widely on African, Asian, and indigenous literature and culture, postcolonial theory, and transculturality in a world of globalized modernity. He was joint project leader of “Africa’s Asian Options” (AFRASO) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. He serves as co-editor of Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society.
Jarula M.I. Wegner
Jarula M. I. Wegner is Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Frankfurt and co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Memory Studies Group at the Frankfurt Humanities Research Centre. He holds degrees in Chinese, German, and English with a doctoral thesis on “Transcultural Memory Constellations in Caribbean Carnivals”. He has been Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, the University of Warwick, and the University of the West Indies.
Chris Ringrose
Chris Ringrose was educated at Cambridge University and the University of Alberta, and has held posts at Dalhousie University, the University of North Carolina, and the University of Northampton. He is currently Adjunct Associate Professor of English at Monash University. His poetry and short fiction have won awards in England, Canada, and Australia, and he has published critical work on modern fiction, literary theory, and children’s literature. He co-edits the Journal of Postcolonial Writing and ibidem’s book series Studies in World Literature. His most recent book of poetry is Palmistry (2019).
Janet Wilson
Flair Donglai Shi (施东来) is a DPhil candidate in English at the University of Oxford. His thesis focuses on the Yellow Peril as a traveling discourse in modern Anglophone and Sinophone literatures. His research interests include postcolonial and queer theories, Victorian literature, and modern East Asian literatures. His articles have been published in many academic journals. Gareth Guangming Tan (陈光明) is a Researcher at the Asia Competitiveness Institute of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He holds a Master of Studies in World Literatures in English from the University of Oxford. His research interests include postcolonial narratives in new media, narratology and ludology, and the intersections of the postcolonial and posthuman. He served as the Editor-in-Chief for the journal Oxford Research in English. His current projects include op-eds in Singapore’s National newspaper, the Straits Times, and upcoming books on the competitiveness of sub-national economies in China and the Southeast Asian region.
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Edited by | Andrea Gremels, Maren Scheurer, Frank Schulze-Engler, Jarula M.I. Wegner |
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Contributions by | Andrea Gremels, Maren Scheurer, Frank Schulze-Engler, Maggie Ann Bowers, Ottmar Ette, Lucy Gasser, Delphine Munos, Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira, Jan Rupp, Ana Sobral |
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Edited by | Chris Ringrose, Janet Wilson |
Number of Pages |
308
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Language |
English
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Studies in World Literature
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Publication date |
17.05.2022
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Paperback
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21,0 cm x 14,8 cm
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ISBN
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978-3-8382-1593-8
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Weight
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402 g
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