Full Description
ENTANGLEMENTS: ENVISIONING WORLD LITERATURE FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH scrutinises 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 globalised world.
Contents
Introduction; Survival of the Fittest, or, What Is a Classic? J.M. Coetzee, Aesthetic Darwinism and World Literature; "Tilting Camus Sideways": Intertextual Entanglements between Albert Camuss LÉtranger and Kamel Daouds Meursault, contre-enquête; Transareal Cities and Literatures Without a Fixed Abode in Assia Djebar, Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Cécile Wajsbrot; Heterodox Maps of World Literature and South-to-South Dialogue in Caribbean Writing; Movements, Diasporas, Entanglements: Traces of the Brazil-Angola Slave Trade in Contemporary Voices; Re-Envisioning Surrealism from Argentina and Mexico: Julio Cortázars Teoría del túnel and Octavio Pazs El arco y la lira; Alternative Modernities, Magical Realism and World Literatures of the Global South; Whats in a World? Rerouting World Literature with Lotus and the Afro-Asian Writers Association; Bwana Goethe and the Remaking of World Literature: Afrasian Imaginaries in M.G. Vassanjis The Magic of Saida; Notes on Contributors.
