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Book SynopsisIf you want to know how globalisation affects literary studies today this is the book for you. Why has world literature become so hotly debated? How does it affect the study of national literatures? What does geopolitics have to do with literature? Does American academe still set an example for the rest of the world? Is China taking over? What about European literature? Europe’s literatures? Do “minor” European literatures get lost in the shuffle? How can authors from such literatures get noticed? Who gains and who loses in an age of world literature? If those are questions that bewilder you look no further: this book provides answers and leaves you fully equipped to dig deeper into the fascinating world of world literature in an age of geopolitics.
Table of ContentsContents Preface and Acknowledgments 1 Mapping World Literature 2 Worlding World Literature 3 Why World Literature Now? 4 Major/Minor in World Literature 5 Major and Minor Players in World Literature 6 Victor Klemperer Saves Europe through Weltliteratur 7 Brussels as Transnational Node for World Literature 8 Larger than Holland: J. Slauerhoff and World Literature 9 Adventures of Mark Twain in World Literature 10 Caribbean Exile into World Literature 11 Anglo-Phone Literature as Global Literature 12 Re-orient 13 Wither European Literature? Bibliography Index
