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World Literature and the Postcolonial

Narratives of (Neo) Colonialization in a Globalized World

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Editors:
  1. Elke Sturm-Trigonakis

    1. Thessaloniki, Greece

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  • Analyzes characteristics of contemporary texts about processes of colonization

  • Aims for an autonomous category of a world literature of the colonial

  • Unites international scholars from various disciplines in the humanities

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Introduction: Shifts in World Literature and Postcolonialism as Knowledge Systems

    • Elke Sturm-Trigonakis
    Pages 1-20

  3. Between Africa and Austria: Revisiting Postcolonialism as a Global Framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Mimicry à Trois

      • Bruno Arich-Gerz
      Pages 23-34

    3. Hybrids, Nomads, Grafts, – and Afropolitans

      • Stephanie Heimgartner
      Pages 35-47

    4. From Habsburg Myth to Kakanien Revisited

      • Wolfgang Müller-Funk
      Pages 49-68

    5. Creating Notions of Transculturality: The Work of Fernando Ortiz and his Impact on Europe

      • Dagmar Reichardt
      Pages 69-83

  5. Literary World Orders Between Localism and Globalism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. Latvian Multiculturalism, Postcolonialism, and World Literature

      • Benedikts Kalnačs
      Pages 159-170

    3. Ondjaki’s Classmates Read Honwana. Towards a Transcolonial Theory

      • Ewa Łukaszyk
      Pages 171-180

    4. Yellow Spots in Klaus Modick’s The Gray of the Caroline Islands

      • Thomas Schwarz
      Pages 181-194

    5. (Not) Within Walking Distance: Walking Journeys and the Postcolonial

      • Monika Shafi
      Pages 195-206

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 207-210
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About this book

This volume approaches literary representations of post and neocolonialism by combining their readings with respective theoretical configurations. The aim is to cast light upon common characteristics of contemporary texts from around the world that deal with processes of colonization. Based on the epistemic discourses of postimperialism/postcolonialism, globalization, and world literature, the volume’s chapters bring together international scholars from various disciplines in the Humanities, including Comparative Cultural Studies, Slavic, Romance, German, and African Studies. The main concern of the contributions is to conceptualize an autonomous category of a world literature of the colonial, going well beyond established classifications according to single languages or center-periphery dichotomies.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Thessaloniki, Greece

    Elke Sturm-Trigonakis

About the editor

Elke Sturm-Trigonakis is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki/Greece and author of monographs and volumes concerning the concept of new Weltliteratur. Her research interests include (multilingual) world literature, postcolonialism, the picaresque novel, urban and crime fiction, and knowledge systems in the Humanities.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: World Literature and the Postcolonial

  • Book Subtitle: Narratives of (Neo) Colonialization in a Globalized World

  • Editors: Elke Sturm-Trigonakis

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-61785-4

  • Publisher: J.B. Metzler Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Deutschland, ein Teil von Springer Nature 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-61784-7Published: 19 May 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-61785-4Published: 18 May 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 210

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Literature, general, Terrorism and Political Violence

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