The Transnational in Literary Studies

Published by De Gruyter 2020

The Transnational in Literary Studies

Potential and Limitations of a Concept

Edited by: Kai Wiegandt

Volume 17 in the series WeltLiteraturen / World Literatures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110688726

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This volume clarifies the meanings and applications of the concept of the transnational and identifies areas in which the concept can be particularly useful. The division of the volume into three parts reflects areas which seem particularly amenable to analysis through a transnational lens. The chapters in Part 1 present case studies in which the concept replaces or complements traditionally dominant concepts in literary studies. These chapters demonstrate, for example, why some dramatic texts and performances can better be described as transnational than as postcolonial, and how the transnational underlies and complements concepts such as world literature. Part 2 assesses the advantages and limitations of writing literary history with a transnational focus. These chapters illustrate how such a perspective loosens the epistemic stranglehold of national historiographies, but they also argue that the transnational and national agendas of literary historiography are frequently entangled. The chapters in Part 3 identify transnational genres such as the transnational historical novel, transnational migrant fiction and translinguistic theatre, and analyse the specific poetics and politics of these genres.

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Kai Wiegandt, Universität Tübingen, Germany.

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Introduction: The Concept of the Transnational in Literary Studies Kai Wiegandt Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	1
1 The Transnational amongst Related Concepts in Theory and Marketing
Mixed Attachments in Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana (1971) Anna M. Horatschek Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	21
Transnational Challenges for World Literatures: Publishing Caribbean Writers Gesine Müller Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	44
“Transnational Decolonial Aesthetics”: The “Hottentot Venus” Re-Configured Cecile Sandten Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	56
Precariously Transnational: Teju Cole’s Every Day Is for the Thief Cordula Lemke Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	76
The Discursive Construction of Transnational Fiction on Penguin Random House Group Websites Lucia Krämer Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	89
2 Transnational Literary Histories
Utopia, Limited: Transnational Utopianism and Intercultural Imaginaries of the Ideal Jacqueline Dutton Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	107
Travel Literature and/as Transnational Theatre History – Beyond National Theatre Cultures Martina Groß Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	124
Transnationally Forged Nationality: Le Brésil littéraire and the Writing of Literary History in the Nineteenth Century Laura Rivas Gagliardi Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	142
3 Poetics and Politics of Transnational Genres
Historical Horizons: The Historical Novel and Transnational Memory Lukas Lammers Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	169
Re-centring European Geopolitics: Transnational Identities in the Twenty-First- Century Hungarian-Language Novel from Slovakia Dobrota Pucherová Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	189
Transnational Migrant Fiction as World Literature: Identity, Translatability, and the Global Book Market Kai Wiegandt Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	206
Translinguistic Theatre for a Globalised Stage? Thomas Hunkeler Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	226
Works Cited Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	239
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	259
Index Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	263

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of literary & cultural studies, anglophone & romance literatures, sociology of culture, world literature
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 267
Keywords: Transnationalism; literary studies; world literature; postcolonial literature

eBook

Published: July 6, 2020
ISBN: 9783110688726

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Published: July 6, 2020
ISBN: 9783110688566