About this book
Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South scrutinizes current debates to bring historical and contemporary South-South entanglements to the fore and to develop a new understanding of world literature in a multipolar world of globalized modernity. The volume challenges established ideas of world literature by rethinking the concept along the notion of "entanglements": as a field of variously criss-crossing relations of literary activity beyond the confines of literary canons, cultural containers, or national borders.The collection presents individual case studies from a variety of language traditions that focus on particular literary relationships and practices across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe as well as new fictional, poetical, and theoretical conceptions of world literature in order to broaden our understanding of the multilateral entanglements within a widening communicative network that shape our globalized world.
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Table of contents
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Survival of the Fittest, or, What Is a Classic? J.M. Coetzee, Aesthetic Darwinism and World Literature
- âTilting Camus Sidewaysâ: Intertextual Entanglements between Albert Camusâs LâĂtranger and Kamel Daoudâs Meursault, contre-enquĂȘte
- Transareal Cities and Literatures Without a Fixed Abode in Assia Djebar, Emine Sevgi Ăzdamar and CĂ©cile Wajsbrot
- Heterodox Maps of World Literature and South-to-South Dialogue in Caribbean Writing
- Movements, Diasporas, Entanglements: Traces of the Brazil-Angola Slave Trade in Contemporary Voices
- Re-Envisioning Surrealism from Argentina and Mexico: Julio CortĂĄzarâs TeorĂa del tĂșnel and Octavio Pazâs El arco y la lira
- Alternative Modernities, Magical Realism and World Literatures of the Global South
- Whatâs in a World? Rerouting World Literature with Lotus and the Afro-Asian Writersâ Association
- Bwana Goethe and the Remaking of World Literature: Afrasian Imaginaries in M.G. Vassanjiâs The Magic of Saida
- Notes on Contributors