Open access for our new books

We're pleased to announce that our first three volumes in the Bloomsbury series, Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures, are now available in open access publication. Click on the links below to read Claiming SpaceLiterature and the Making of the World and Northern Crossings.

 

Claiming Space explores literary works and practices – always existing in the dynamic relation between locations and orientations – in a series of carefully designed case studies. Explicitly expressed or implied, manifesting itself sometimes as dislocation and disorientation, the claiming of space by any symbolic means necessary is revealed as a constant effect of literary endeavors. In dialogue with geopolitics of culture, sociology and anthropology, attention to literary locations and orientations brings spatial particularity into the study of world literatures.


Literature and the Making of the World positions itself at the intersection of world literature studies, literary anthropology and philosophical critiques of 'world' and 'globe' concepts. Doing so, it investigates how literature imagines and shapes worlds for its readers through linguistically specific cosmopolitan-vernacular dynamics, both at the level of textual engagement and on a material level of textual production and circulation.

 



Northern Crossings  uses Swedish literature and the Swedish publishing field as recurring examples to describe and analyse the role of the literary semi-peripheral position in world literature from various perspectives and on meso, micro and macro levels, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. This includes the role of translation in the semi-periphery and the conditions under which literature travels to and from that position. 

 

The fourth volume, Vernaculars in an Age of World Literatures, is forthcoming in February 2022.   

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written by Alice Duhan
13 December, 2021