World Literature as Geoculture /

World Literature as Geoculture applies a geopolitical perspective to literature. It considers literature, along with all other cultural elements, as both formed by and constitutive of a region's, nation's, or continent's global position. The book opens with a chapter discussing the ge...

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Main Author: D'haen, Theo (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Series: Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026

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Call Number: PN33

Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Geopolitics, Geoculture, World Literature
  • 2 Geopolitics and World Literature
  • 3 Nation and Literature
  • 4 European Literature and World Literature
  • 5 Translation and Comparative World Literature
  • 6 Empire's Ebb
  • 7 (No) Postmodernism in the Age of World Literature?
  • 8 Towards a Planetary Cosmodernism
  • 9 Worlding Edward Said
  • 10 Going Caribbean, Going Global
  • 11 Magical Realism and World Literature
  • 12 Global Souths
  • 13 Wang Ning: Sinicizing World Literature
  • 14 Sinicizing Comparative and World Literature: Cao Shunqing and Translation Studies
  • 15 The Well-Tempered Jade Flute: a Chinese Turn in Early Twentieth-Century European Literature
  • 16 Dutch, Belgian, and Flemish Literature on the World Stage
  • 17 "To be Flemish in order to become European" - August Vermeylen and Flemish Literature
  • 18 Writing Afropolitan/Afropean
  • 19 Conclusion: Quid CompLit? Quid WorldLit?
  • Bibliography
  • Index.