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Book SynopsisIn recent years postnational theory has become a primary tool for the analysis of European integration. Though interpretations of the concept vary, there is a wide consensus about postnationalism as a way to forge a European identity beyond a particular national history. In line with the German historical context in which this key concept was formulated in the first place, postnationalism is considered to be an adaptation of Kantian cosmopolitanism to the conditions of the modern world. This collection of essays is the first to systematically and comparatively explore the links between postnationalism and cosmopolitanism within the context of the “New Europe”. Contributors: Susana Araújo, Sibylle Baumbach, Helena Buescu, John Crosetti, Maria DiBattista, César Domínguez, Soren Frank, Birgit Mara Kaiser, Dorothy Odartey-Wellington, Maria Esteves Pereira, Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Aysegul Turan.
Trade Review“Those wondering about the future of Europe, given the recent political and social difficulties the continent has faced, might be well-advised to turn to César Domínguez and Theo D’haen’s timely collection of essays for possible answers.” - Audrey Louckx, Université de Mons, Belgium, in: Recherche Littéraire/Literary Research, Vol. 33 (2017), pp.218-224
Table of ContentsTable of Contents César Domínguez. “Introduction” Part 1. Challenging Postnationalism/Cosmopolitanism Helena Buescu. “Europe between Old and New: Cosmopolitanism Reconsidered” César Domínguez. “Local Rooms with a Cosmopolitan View? Novels in/on the Limits of European Convergence” Sibylle Baumbach. “Rooting “New European Literature”: A Reconsideration of the European Myth of the Postnational and Cynical Cosmopolitanism” Maria DiBattista. “Native Cosmopolitans” Part 2. What’s New in European Literature? Susana Araújo. “European Security, European Identity? Fictions of Terror and Transnationality” Søren Frank. “Globalization, Migration literature, and the New Europe” Karen-Margrethe Simonsen. “Towards a New Europe? On Emergent and Transcultural Literary Histories” Part 3. Test Cases on Postnationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the New Europe John Crosetti. “Europeanization, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Cases in the Crime Fiction of Poe, Gadda and Simenon” Birgit Mara Kaiser. “The Spaces of Transnational Literature: Or, Where on Earth Are We with Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Der Hof im Spiegel?” Dorothy Odartey-Wellington. “Postnational or Postcolonial? Reading Immigrant Writing in Postnational Europe: The Case of Equatorial Guinea and Spain” Margarida Esteves Pereira. “A Transnational and Transcultural Perspective: Transcending the “Englishness” of English Literature” Aysegul Turan. “How to Become a “Rudeboy”: Identity Formation and Transformation in Londonstani”
