Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction: The Concept of the Transnational in Literary Studies 1
4. 1 The Transnational amongst Related Concepts in Theory and Marketing
5. Mixed Attachments in Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana (1971) 21
6. Transnational Challenges for World Literatures: Publishing Caribbean Writers 44
7. “Transnational Decolonial Aesthetics”: The “Hottentot Venus” Re-Configured 56
8. Precariously Transnational: Teju Cole’s Every Day Is for the Thief 76
9. The Discursive Construction of Transnational Fiction on Penguin Random House Group Websites 89
10. 2 Transnational Literary Histories
11. Utopia, Limited: Transnational Utopianism and Intercultural Imaginaries of the Ideal 107
12. Travel Literature and/as Transnational Theatre History – Beyond National Theatre Cultures 124
13. Transnationally Forged Nationality: Le Brésil littéraire and the Writing of Literary History in the Nineteenth Century 142
14. 3 Poetics and Politics of Transnational Genres
15. Historical Horizons: The Historical Novel and Transnational Memory 169
16. Re-centring European Geopolitics: Transnational Identities in the Twenty-First- Century Hungarian-Language Novel from Slovakia 189
17. Transnational Migrant Fiction as World Literature: Identity, Translatability, and the Global Book Market 206
18. Translinguistic Theatre for a Globalised Stage? 226
19. Works Cited 239
20. Notes on Contributors 259
21. Index 263