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Kojo Laing, Robert Browning and Affiliative Literature - Relational Worlds (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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Kojo Laing, Robert Browning and Affiliative Literature - Relational Worlds (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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This book compares the Victorian British poet Robert Browning and
the twentieth-century Ghanaian poet and novelist Kojo Laing-two
writers whose texts frequently foreground multi-scalar
transregional cartographies, points of connection and translation,
and imaginative kinships between different linguistic and cultural
communities. Starting from the numerous and surprising points of
connection and resemblance between both authors' texts, this book
puts pressure on critical practices that would keep writers like
Laing and Browning separate, positing instead the importance of
paying attention to the transnational, cross-cultural, and
cross-temporal imaginative relationships texts themselves generate.
By comparing two writers whose texts represent different points of
view on a number of shared and congruent contexts, this book seeks
an original way of understanding the relationship between texts and
(post-) colonial contexts, texts and other texts. Browning's and
Laing's shared tendency to foreground trans- and post-national
cartographies of relation and difference, and their similarly
translational aesthetics, both demand a probing of the disciplinary
separation between 'English Literature' and 'Comparative
Literature', as well as 'literature' and 'comparison', and a fresh
awareness of the ways in which literature itself makes comparisons
and affiliations. It also involves a version of 'world literature'
intent on accentuating the relational worlds (linguistic,
imaginative, ethical) that texts themselves generate; a criticism
sensitive to the ways in which writers from different times and
places can still be seen to overlap.
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