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Phenomena such as the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, or the
surge of political populism show that the current phase of
accelerated globalization is over. New concepts are needed in order
to respond to this exhaustion of the global project: the volume
scrutinizes these responses in the aesthetic realm and under a
"post-global" banner, while incorporating alternative, non-Western
epistemologies and literatures of the post-colonial Global South.
The debate over the concept of world literature, which has been
taking place with renewed intensity over the last twenty years, is
tightly bound up with the issues of global interconnectedness in a
polycentric world. Most recently, critiques of
globalization-related conceptualizations, in particular, have made
themselves heard: to what extent is the concept of world literature
too closely connected with the political and economic dynamics of
globalization? Such questions cannot be answered simply through
theoretical debate. The material side of the production of world
literature must therefore be more strongly integrated into the
conversation than it has been. Using the example of Latin American
literatures, this volume demonstrates the concrete construction
processes of world literature. To that purpose, archival materials
have been analyzed here: notes, travel reports, and correspondence
between publishers and authors. The Latin American examples provide
particularly rich information about the processes of
institutionalization in the Western world, as well as new
perspectives for a contemporary mapping of world literature beyond
the established dynamics of canonization.
How can we talk about World Literature if we do not actually
examine the world as a whole? Research on World Literature commonly
focuses on the dynamics of a western center and a southern
periphery, ignoring the fact that numerous literary relationships
exist beyond these established constellations of thinking and
reading within the Global South. Re-Mapping World Literature
suggests a different approach that aims to investigate new
navigational tools that extend beyond the known poles and meridians
of current literary maps. Using the example of Latin American
literatures, this study provides innovative insights into the
literary modeling of shared historical experiences, epistemological
crosscurrents, and book market processes within the Global South
which thus far have received scant attention. The contributions to
this volume, from renowned scholars in the fields of World and
Latin American literatures, assess travelling aesthetics and
genres, processes of translation and circulation of literary works,
as well as the complex epistemological entanglements and shared
worldviews between Latin America, Africa and Asia. A timely book
that embraces highly innovative perspectives, it will be a
must-read for all scholars involved in the field of the global
dimensions of literature.
From today's vantage point it can be denied that the confidence in
the abilities of globalism, mobility, and cosmopolitanism to
illuminate cultural signification processes of our time has been
severely shaken. In the face of this crisis, a key concept of this
globalizing optimism as World Literature has been for the past
twenty years necessarily is in the need of a comprehensive
revision. World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality: Beyond,
Against, Post, Otherwise offers a wide range of contributions
approaching the blind spots of the globally oriented Humanities for
phenomena that in one way or another have gone beyond the
discourses, aesthetics, and political positions of liberal
cosmopolitanism and neoliberal globalization. Departing basically
(but not exclusively) from different examples of Latin American
literatures and cultures in globalized contexts, this volume
provides innovative insights into critical readings of World
Literature and its related conceptualizations. A timely book that
embraces highly innovative perspectives, it will be a mustread for
all scholars involved in the field of the global dimensions of
literature.
The study examines cultural effects of various colonial systems of
government in the Spanish- and French-speaking Caribbean in a
little investigated period of transition: from the French
Revolution to the abolition of slavery in Cuba (1789-1886). The
comparison of cultural transfer processes by means of literary
production from and about the Caribbean, embedded in a broader
context of the circulation of culture and knowledge deciphers the
different transculturations of European discourses in the colonies
as well as the repercussions of these transculturations on the
motherland's ideas of the colonial other: The loss of a culturally
binding centre in the case of the Spanish colonies - in contrast to
France's strong presence and binding force - is accompanied by a
multirelationality which increasingly shapes hispanophone Caribbean
literature and promotes the pursuit for political independence. The
book provides necessary revision to the idea that the 19th-century
Caribbean can only be understood as an outpost of the European
metropolises. Examining the kaleidoscope of the colonial Caribbean
opens new insights into the early processes of cultural
globalisation and questions our established concept of a genuine
western modernity. Updated and expanded translation of Die
koloniale Karibik. Transferprozesse in hispanophonen und
frankophonen Literaturen, De Gruyter (mimesis 53), 2012
This analysis of the kaleidoscopic world of the 19th-century
Caribbean and the literary and cultural transfers that took place
during thattime offers completely new insights into early processes
of cultural globalization. Racist discourses, established models of
white abolitionists, the politics of memory, and the previously
ignored importance of the Haitian revolution come together to form
an amalgam that challenges the traditional notion of a purely
Western modernity."
Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of
indentured labour stilled global capitalism's need for cheap,
disposable labour. The famous 'coolie trade' - mainly Asian
labourers transferred to French and British islands in the Indian
Ocean, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa, the Caribbean, the
Americas, as well as to Portuguese colonies in Africa - was one of
the largest migration movements in global history. Indentured
contract workers are perhaps the most revealing example of bonded
labour in the grey area between the poles of chattel slavery and
'free' wage labour. This interdisciplinary volume addresses
historically and regionally specific cases of bonded labour
relations from the 18th century to sponsorship systems in the Arab
Gulf States today.
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