Literature, Geography, Translation: Studies in World Writing
About this ebook
The topics covered in the chapters include the formation of world literature as a progamme of study, the French concept of littérature-monde, the rise of English in nineteenth-century Sweden, the translation of Arabic literature in Europe, and the transnationalism of the avant-garde. Through such case studies, and by drawing on the theoretical frameworks of Édouard Glissant, Pierre Bourdieu and David Damrosch, among others, the international group of contributors add substantially to the theoretical and methodological consolidation of world literature as a field of research.
About the author
Stefan Helgesson is Professor of English at Stockholm University, Sweden. Apart from his academic focus on southern African literature, Brazilian literature, postcolonial theory, and theories of world literature, he freelances as a literary critic and is also a novelist. His most recent academic book is Transnationalism in Southern African Literature (2009).
David Watson is Associate Professor of English, with a specialisation in American literature, at the Department of English at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has published on literary modernism, American literature, and transnational studies, and is currently working on two projects: a book-length study of transnational connectivity in nineteenth-century America entitled The Hauntings of America, and a research project entitled “Locating the Ends of US Imperialism.”
