World Literature and the Postcolonial

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

4. Strange Encounters of Texts and Ideas

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. Commemorating a Black Pushkin in Paris: Marina Tsvetaeva and Négritude

      • Gesine Drews-Sylla

      Pages 87-102

   3. World Literature Beyond the Postcolonial?

      • Dirk Göttsche

      Pages 103-118

   4. Space, Time, Memory: Magical Realism and Postcolonialism in Hugo Loetscher’s Prose

      • Isabel Hernández

      Pages 119-135

   5. Can World Literature link Greece and Brazil? Thoughts on Literary Traffic

      • Gregory Jusdanis

      Pages 137-156

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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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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• travelogues
• literary traffic
• knowledge systems
• globalization
• postimperialism
• neocolonialism
• comparative cultural studies
• postcolonialism
• afropolitanism
• world literature
• transculturality

• Thessaloniki, Greece

  Elke Sturm-Trigonakis

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.

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