Narrated Belonging : Exploring the Boundaries of Nationhood and its Alternatives (Passages - Transitions - Intersections) （1. Edition 2026）

Poetzl, Viktoria (EDT)/ Wiedlack, Katharina (EDT)

V&R unipress; Brill Deutschland GmbH（2026/08発売）

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Description

This edited volume explores diverse literary representations of nationalism and its inter-, trans-, and antinational forms across multiple geographies, from Russia and Ukraine to North America, the Caribbean, Israel, Palestine, and Spain. Covering the nineteenth century to the present, the book explores the complexities of the nation and its transformative potential in literary studies. Contributors examine nationalisms in fiction, autobiography, poetry, and theater, addressing global capitalist exploitation, colonialism, racism, sexism, xenophobia, and white supremacy. The collection includes counter-hegemonic narratives from marginalized perspectives, highlighting Black American transnationalism, Palestinian literary criticism, Romani poetry, and alternative Caribbean notions of belonging. National, Transnational, and Antinational Circuits in Literature This volume explores the complexities and variations of the nation and examines its transformative potential within the broad field of literary studies through various literary works, including fiction, autobiography, poetry, and theater. The authors address phenomena such as global capitalist exploitation, and its conjunction with other forms of violence, including colonialism, racism, sexism, xenophobia, and white supremacy. They engage with literary texts and film that reflect on, and disseminate, both hegemonic and, importantly, counterhegemonic discourses across the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Each chapter engages with productions that speak from minoritarian and/or racially oppressed perspectives, including works representing Black American transnationalism, perspectives of refugees of color, immigrant and Palestinian voices, Romani positionalities, and Caribbean diasporic perspectives. Focusing on these cultural texts, our authors examine the effects of, as well as resistance to, a variety of vectors of oppression. These include U.S.- American anti-Black racism and anti-migrantism, in connection with the exploitation of the working class; European anti-Roma violence; 20th -century Zionism; the violence of European border regimes; and forced migration and the segregation of refugees into camps. Viktoria Pötzl is Associate Professor of German-Jewish Studies at Grinnell College. Katharina Wiedlack is Assistant Professor of Anglophone Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna.