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Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism
This book shows how Persianate poetics and communist internationalism brought together 20th-century writers from across Eurasia.
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures
Adopting a unique historical approach to its subject and with a particular focus on the institutions involved in the creation, dissemination, and reception of literature, this handbook surveys the way in which the Cold War shaped literature and literary production, and how literature affected the course of the Cold War. To do so, in addition to more 'traditional' sources it uses institutions like MFA programs, university literature departments, book-review sections of newspapers, publishing houses, non-governmental cultural agencies, libraries, and literary magazines as a way to understand works of the period differently. Broad in both their geographical range and the range of writers they cover, the book's essays examine works of mainstream American literary fiction from writers such as Roth, Updike and Faulkner, as well as moving beyond the U.S. and the U.K. to detail how writers and readers from countries including, but not limited to, Taiwan, Japan, Uganda, South Africa, India, Cuba, the USSR, and the Czech Republic engaged with and contributed to Anglo-American literary texts and institutions.
Global Literary Studies
While the very existence of global literary studies as an institutionalised field is not yet fully established, the global turn in various disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences has been gaining traction in recent years. This book aims to contribute to the field of global literary studies with a more inclusive and decentralising approach. Specifically, it responds to a double demand: the need for expanding openness to other ways of seeing the global literary space by including multiple literary and cultural traditions and other interdisciplinary perspectives in the discussion, and the need for conceptual models and different case studies that will help develop a global approach in four key avenues of research: global translation flows and translation policies, the post-1989 novel as a global form, global literary environments, and a global perspective on film and cinema history. Gathering contributions from international scholars with expertise in various areas of research, the volume is structured around five target concepts: space, scale, time, connectivity, and agency. We also take gender and LGBTQ+ perspectives, as well as a digital approach.
New Soundings in Postcolonial Writing
New Soundings in Postcolonial Writing is a collection of critical and creative writing in honour of the postcolonial critic, editor and anthologist Bruce King. There are essays on topics relating to Caribbean authors (Derek Walcott, Simone and Andre Schwarz-Bart); diaspora writers in England (Zadie Smith, Andrea Levy, Michael Ondaatje), South East Asian writing in English (Arun Kolatkar, recent Pakistani fiction, Anita Desai) and New Zealand, Canadian and Pacific writers (Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Bill Manhire, Joseph Boyden, Greg O’Brien). The creative writing section features new work by David Dabydeen, Fred D’Aguiar, Arvind Mehrotra, Jeet Thayil, Meena Alexander, Keki Daruwalla, Adil Jussawalla, Tabish Khair, Susan Visvanathan and others, reflecting King’s pioneering work on Indian poetry in English, and his many friendships.
The Locations of (World) Literature
Location matters, for critics, readers and texts. This book explores the notion of location not simply as geographical, historical, or cultural context but as a standpoint, a position, an orientation, a necessarily partial and particular perspective, however ample it may be, from which writers represent and imagine their worlds. However, the constraint of location in the form of a reductive geographical marker has been felt most acutely by writers of the Global South. This book explores how modern and contemporary writers from Africa and South Asia consider their place in the world, in world literature, and in the wider geographical regions or national literary histories which their work is ...
The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form
This timely volume focuses on the period of decolonization and the Cold War as the backdrop to the emergence of new and diverse literary aesthetics that accompanied anti-imperialist commitments and Afro-Asian solidarity. Competing internationalist frameworks produced a flurry of writings that made Asian, African and other world literatures visible to each other for the first time. The book’s essays examine a host of print culture formats (magazines, newspapers, manifestos, conference proceedings, ephemera, etc.) and modes of cultural mediation and transnational exchange that enabled the construction of a variously inflected Third-World culture which played a determining role throughout the...
Arun Kolatkar and Literary Modernism in India
In this first scholarly work on India's great modern poet, Laetitia Zecchini outlines a story of literary modernism in India and discusses the traditions, figures and events that inspired and defined Arun Kolatkar. Based on an impressive range of archival and unpublished material, this book also aims at moving lines of accepted genealogies of modernism and 'postcolonial literature'. Zecchini uncovers how poets of Kolatkar's generation became modern Indian writers while tracing a lineage to medieval oral traditions. She considers how literary bilingualism allowed Kolatkar to blur the boundaries between Marathi and English, 'Indian' and 'Western sources; how he used his outsider position to pr...
L'histoire au théâtre
Entre 1870 et 1914, alors que de grandes nations européennes sont en construction et que les révolutions secouent le continent, le théâtre fin-de-siècle affirme la continuité du drame historique romantique en contestant pourtant ses valeurs : l'héroïsme et la noblesse d'âme sont désormais suspects et invalidés, la scène européenne préfère les petits faits aux grands évènements et les faiblesses des grands hommes à leurs moments de gloire. On voit alors sur scène, chez Strindberg, Sardou, Rost.
Décentrer le cosmopolitisme
"Aujourd'hui, l'intensification des circulations crée de nouvelles formes d'exclusion. Il parait donc important de réactualiser la notion de cosmopolitisme. Ce volume examine les voies ouvertes par la littérature depuis le XVIIIe siècle pour "décentrer le cosmopolitisme" en dépassant la tradition élitiste et européenne, dans laquelle on l'inscrit habituellement, et en mettant l'accent sur sa dimension politique et sociale. On y trouvera donc des réflexions consacrées à des lieux, des oeuvres et des pratiques qui ressaisissent la visée critique, voire émancipatrice, du cosmopolitisme. Ne sont pas oubliés non plus les écrivains, essayistes, journalistes et voyageurs, venus d'espaces culturels divers, qui ne se sont pas limités à parcourir le monde pour dire qu'ils s'en sentaient les citoyens, mais qui se sont aussi intéressés à ses marges culturelles et sociales. Ce qui apparaît ici, c'est un cosmopolitisme pluriel et "d'en bas" que la littérature reconfigure, parfois en lui donnant des lettres de noblesse paradoxales (éloge du vagabond, de l'exil ou de l'autodidaxie)."--Page 4 of cover.
J.-K. Huysmans
"A principio erat verbum. La position spirituelle et la situation littéraire d'un écrivain engoncé entre une fin de siècle matérialiste et un avant-siècle se prosternant devant l'idéologie du Progrès le condamne parfois à errer en une sorte d'interrègne, qui masque la modernité de son interrogation religieuse. Chez Huysmans, ce réseau de signes apparemment contraires désigne le lieu d'une interrogation essentielle. Celle-ci ne trouvera sa réponse qu'à partir du cycle de Durtal, tandis que son foyer demeurera sans cesse ardent jusqu'à la conversion de l'écrivain, en 1892, et au-delà. Loin d'être frappés de désuétude, le long cheminement spirituel et son point d'orgue, la...
