Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures

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Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures

Edited by: Stefan Helgesson , Birgit Neumann and Gabriele Rippl

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2020

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Volume 13 | Handbooks of English and American Studies

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The Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures is the first globally comprehensive attempt to chart the rich field of world literatures in English. Part I navigates different usages of the term ‘world literature’ from an historical point of view. Part II discusses a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to world literature. This is also where the handbook’s conceptualisation of ‘Anglophone world literatures’ – in the plural – is developed and interrogated in juxtaposition with proximate fields of inquiry such as postcolonialism, translation studies, memory studies and environmental humanities. Part III charts sociological approaches to Anglophone world literatures, considering their commodification, distribution, translation and canonisation on the international book market. Part IV, finally, is dedicated to the geographies of Anglophone world literatures and provides sample interpretations of literary texts written in English.

Author / Editor information

Stefan Helgesson, University of Stockholm, Birgit Neumann, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf; Gabriele Rippl, University of Berne.

Reviews

"Diese selbstbewusst-bescheidene Heterogenität, Dynamik und Unabgeschlossenheit rückt das Handbuch der anglophonen Weltliteraturen der von Verlagen – und so auch von De Gruyters Reihe Handbooks of English and American Studies, Text and Theory – oftmals eingeforderten und nur selten erreichten breiten Zielgruppenansprache – Bachelorstudierende in den ersten Semestern ebenso wie erfahrene Wissenschaftler*innen – schon sehr nahe. Es dürfte, wenn nicht für alle, so doch für sehr viele Weltliteraturinteressierte etwas dabei sein; nicht zuletzt auch für jene traditionellen Komparatist*innen, die mit Weltliteraturen in mehreren Sprachen arbeiten und der Anglisierung der Welt höchst skeptisch gegenüberstehen." Sandra Folie in: literaturkritik.de, https://literaturkritik.de/rippl-neumann-helgesson-handbook-of-anglophone-world-literatures,27574.html (11.02.2021)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Editors’ Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
0 Introduction Stefan Helgesson, Birgit Neumann and Gabriele Rippl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I: Historical Approaches – Genealogies of World Literatures
1 The Beginnings of the Concept (Goethe, Marx, Said) – Readings from a Postcolonial Perspective Reingard Nethersole Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	15
2 Re-Reading Classical Approaches from a Postcolonial Perspective: Pascale Casanova, Franco Moretti, David Damrosch Theo D’haen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
3 Macaulay’s Magic Hat: The Colonial Education System and the Canon of World Literature Rosinka Chaudhuri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	41
4 The King’s English and the Mother Tongue Carrol Clarkson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	53
5 Rethinking English Studies Neil Lazarus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	67
Part II: Concepts and Methods of Anglophone World Literatures
6 Global Literature, World Literature and Worlding Literature: Some Conceptual Differences Pheng Cheah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	85
7 Barbarians: Cosmopolitanism Beyond the Center-Periphery Model Bruce Robbins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	103
8 Anglophone World Literatures and World Ecologies (Environmental Humanities) Claudia Egerer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	119
9 Anglophone World Literatures and Transcultural Memory Birgit Neumann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	133
10 Anglophone World Literatures and Translation Susan Bassnett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	149
11 Comparative Literature Jan Steyn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	161
12 Genres of Anglophone World Literatures Justine M’Connell Publicly Available Download PDF	175
13 Decolonizing World Literature through Orality Uhuru Portia Phalafala Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
14 Intermediality and Remediation Gabriele Rippl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	209
Part III: Sociological Approaches – Distribution, Reception and Translation of Anglophone World Literature
15 Marketing Anglophone World Literatures Sibylle Baumbach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	229
16 Canons and Canonicity in Anglophone Literature Peter Hitchcock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	245
17 Teaching Anglophone World Literature Vilashini Cooppan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	263
18 Anglophone World Literatures, the Internet and the Digital Humanities Mads Rosendahl Thomsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	275
Part IV: Literary Worlds – Locations and Orientations
19 Britain Eva Ulrike Pirker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	291
20 Ireland Joakim Wrethed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	313
21 USA David Watson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	333
22 Canada Katja Sarkowsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	355
23 The Oceans Meg Samuelson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	375
24 The Caribbean Sarah Phillips Casteel Publicly Available Download PDF	395
25 Southern Africa Stefan Helgesson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	415
26 West Africa Harry Garuba and Christopher E.W. Ouma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	433
27 East Africa Godwin Siundu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	451
28 South Asia Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	471
29 Southeast Asia (Hong Kong and Singapore) Kwok-kan Tam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	489
30 Australia Nicole Moore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	511
31 New Zealand Literature and the World Andrew Dean Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	531
Name Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	549
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	567
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	579

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eBook published on:

September 7, 2020

eBook ISBN:

9783110583182

Hardcover published on:

September 7, 2020

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110580846

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Front matter:

9

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580

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110583182

eBook ISBN: 9783110583182

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110580846

Keywords for this book

Anglophone world literature/s; Literary History; Postcolonialism; Comparative Studies; Translation

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Academics (Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies), Students (BA, MA and PhD level), Libraries, Institutes

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