Studying Transcultural Literary History

by Lindberg-Wada, Gunilla

• ISBN13: 9783110189551
• ISBN10: 3110189550
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-30
• Publisher: De Gruyter

Summary

In our globalised world, literature is less and less confined to national spaces. Europe-centred frameworks for literary studies have become insufficient; academics are increasingly called upon to address matters of cultural difference. In this volume, leading scholars discuss the critical and methodical challenges that these developments pose to the writing of literary history.

Table of Contents

Studying transcultural literary history : introduction	p. 3
Possibilities for transcultural literary history	p. 9
Naming of parts, or, how things shape up in transcultural literary history	p. 12
The world as India : some models of literary history	p. 23
Iron square memoranda (Mutatis Mutandis) : for a world literary history	p. 32
A 'culture-sensitive approach' to transcultural literary history	p. 43
Two questions for global literary history	p. 52
Delimiting the objects of literary history	p. 63
African histories of textuality	p. 66
Re-membering the present : placing the praise poet/imbongi in a transcultural literary history	p. 76
Rhetorical uses of folk poetry in nineteenth-century East-Central Europe	p. 88
Historical change of the conceptions of 'literature' and the formation of 'Japanese literature' in the late nineteenth-century Japan	p. 98
Rethinking world literature	p. 111
Evolution, world-systems, Weltliteratur	p. 113
Arguments and further conjectures on world literature	p. 122
A little pact with the devil? : on Franco Moretti's conjectures on world literature	p. 133
Glocalizing the novel	p. 144
The practise of writing transnational and translingual literary history	p. 155
On the Englishness of English literary histories as a challenge to transcultural literary history	p. 158
Drawing a map of a literary history of Europe	p. 169
Writing literary history : a perspective from the South of the globe	p. 180
Fugitive modernities : black writing and transnational theory in South African literature	p. 188
Transnational approaches in post-1989 comparative literary history : writing the history of East-Central European literary cultures	p. 197
Literature in circulation	p. 209
Where is world literature?	p. 211
The Gitagovinda : a twelfth-century Sanskrit poem travels West	p. 221
The story of Majnun Layla in transcultural perspectives	p. 232
Migrant writers and cosmopolitan readers	p. 244
Translating cultures and literatures	p. 253
A cognitive model of cross-cultural literary influence	p. 255
Intercultural literary studies in an age of globalisation	p. 265
Jenus came and never left : writing literary history in the face of the other	p. 278
The concrete and the universal in Renaissance Arabic thought	p. 289
Translation and ethnography in literary transaction	p. 300
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