Bulgarian Literature as World Literature

Mihaela P. Harper, Dimitar Kambourov

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781501369780
• eBook ISBN: 9781501348112
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Bulgarian Literature as World Literature examines key aspects and manifestations of 20th- and 21st-century Bulgarian literature by way of the global literary landscape. The first volume to bring together in English the perspectives of prominent writers, translators, and scholars of Bulgarian literature and culture, this long-overdue collection identifies correlations between national and world aesthetic ideologies and literary traditions. It situates Bulgarian literature within an array of contexts and foregrounds a complex interplay of changing internal and external forces. These forces shaped not only the first collaborative efforts at the turn of the 20th century to insert Bulgarian literature into the world's literary repository but also the work of contemporary Bulgarian diaspora authors. Mapping histories, geographies, economies, and genetics, the contributors assess the magnitudes and directions of such forces in order to articulate how a distinctly national, "minor" literature--produced for internal use and nearly invisible globally until the last decade--transforms into world literature today.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Contents 
• Foreword: Bulgaria and Its Worlding: A Historical Perspective
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Modern Bulgarian Literature: Being in the World
• Part I: Histories: In Search of a National Profile of World Literature
• Part II: Geographies: Bulgarian Literature as Un/common Ground within and without
• Part III: Economies: Bulgarian Literature and the Global Market
• Part IV: Genetics: Bulgarian Literature’s Heredities, Affinities, and Prospects
• Afterword Beyond “Minor Literatures”: Reflections on World Literature (and on Bulgarian)
• Select Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors
• Index
• Imprint