This volume engages critically with the recent and ongoing
consolidation of "world literature" as a paradigm of study. On the
basis of an extended, active, and ultimately more literary sense of
what it means to institute world literature, it views processes of
institutionalization not as limitations, but as challenges to
understand how literature may simultaneously function as an
enabling and exclusionary world of its own. It starts from the
observation that literature is never simply a given, but is always
performatively and materially instituted by translators,
publishers, academies and academics, critics, and readers, as well
as authors themselves. This volume therefore substantiates,
refines, as well as interrogates current approaches to world
literature, such as those developed by David Damrosch, Pascale
Casanova, and Emily Apter. Sections focus on the poetics of writers
themselves, market dynamics, postcolonial negotiations of discrete
archives of literature, and translation, engaging a range of
related disciplines. The chapters contribute to a fresh
understanding of how singular literary works become inserted in
transnational systems and, conversely, how transnational and
institutional dimensions of literature are inflected in literary
works. Focusing its methodological and theoretical inquiries on a
broad archive of texts spanning the triangle Europe-Latin
America-Africa, the volume unsettles North America as the
self-evident vantage of recent world literature debates. Because of
the volume's focus on dialogues between world literature and fields
such as postcolonial studies, translation studies, book history,
and transnational studies, it will be of interest to scholars and
students in a range of areas.
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