The World-Literary System and the Atlantic

Sorcha Gunne (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 0367643502 / ISBN 13: 9780367643508

Published by Routledge, 2023

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The World-Literary System and the Atlantic | Sorcha Gunne (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2023 | Routledge | EAN 9780367643508 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The World-Literary System and the Atlantic
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367643502
• ISBN 13: 9780367643508
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 9W x 174H x 246D millimeters 9 millimeters width by 174 millimeters height by 246 millimeters depth
• Weight: 303 grams
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Synopsis

The World-Literary System and the Atlantic grapples with key questions about how American studies, and the Atlantic region in general, engages with new considerations of literary comparativism, international literary space and the world-literary system.

The edited collection furthers these discussions by placing them into a relationship with the theory of combined and uneven development – a theory that has a long pedigree in Marxist sociology and political economy and that continues to stimulate debate across the social sciences, but whose implications for culture have received less attention. Drawing on the comparative modes, concepts, and methods being developed in the "new" world-literary studies, the essays cover a diverse range of topics such as, the periodization of world literature, racism and the world-system, singular modernity, critical "irrealism," commodity frontiers, semi-peripherality, and world-ecology.

The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal, Atlantic Studies.

About the Author

Sorcha Gunne is researcher at the Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo, Norway. Her current project investigates the intersection of world literature and social reproduction feminism. Previous books include Space, Place and Gender Violence in South African Writing (2015) and Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives (2010).

Neil Lazarus is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. Previous books include Combined and Uneven Development: Towards A New Theory of World Literature (2015), The Postcolonial Unconscious (2011), Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies (2004), Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies (2002), Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World (1999) and Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction (1990).