The World-Literary System and the Atlantic
1st Edition
Published on 31. December 2020
Book
Hardback
162 pages
978-0-367-64349-2 (ISBN)
Description
The World-Literary System and the Atlantic grapples with key questions about how American studies, and the Atlantic region in general, engages with new considerations of literary comparativism, international literary space and the world-literary system.
The edited collection furthers these discussions by placing them into a relationship with the theory of combined and uneven development - a theory that has a long pedigree in Marxist sociology and political economy and that continues to stimulate debate across the social sciences, but whose implications for culture have received less attention. Drawing on the comparative modes, concepts, and methods being developed in the "new" world-literary studies, the essays cover a diverse range of topics such as, the periodization of world literature, racism and the world-system, singular modernity, critical "irrealism," commodity frontiers, semi-peripherality, and world-ecology.
The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal, Atlantic Studies.
The edited collection furthers these discussions by placing them into a relationship with the theory of combined and uneven development - a theory that has a long pedigree in Marxist sociology and political economy and that continues to stimulate debate across the social sciences, but whose implications for culture have received less attention. Drawing on the comparative modes, concepts, and methods being developed in the "new" world-literary studies, the essays cover a diverse range of topics such as, the periodization of world literature, racism and the world-system, singular modernity, critical "irrealism," commodity frontiers, semi-peripherality, and world-ecology.
The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal, Atlantic Studies.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Weight
400 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-64349-2 (9780367643492)
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Persons
Sorcha Gunne is researcher at the Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo, Norway. Her current project investigates the intersection of world literature and social reproduction feminism. Previous books include Space, Place and Gender Violence in South African Writing (2015) and Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives (2010).
Neil Lazarus is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. Previous books include Combined and Uneven Development: Towards A New Theory of World Literature (2015), The Postcolonial Unconscious (2011), Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies (2004), Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies (2002), Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World (1999) and Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction (1990).
Neil Lazarus is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. Previous books include Combined and Uneven Development: Towards A New Theory of World Literature (2015), The Postcolonial Unconscious (2011), Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies (2004), Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies (2002), Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World (1999) and Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction (1990).
Content
Introduction: The world-literary system and the Atlantic
Neil Lazarus and Sorcha Gunne
1. The world-literary system and the Atlantic: Combined and uneven development - an interview with Stephen Shapiro
Neil Lazarus
2. Three early modern genres: A microhistorical approach to "world literature"
William Boelhower
3. Contesting slavery in the global market: John Brown's Slave Life in Georgia
Michael J. Drexler and Stephanie Scherer
4. On transnational analogy: Thinking race and caste with W. E. B. Du Bois and Rabindranath Tagore
Yogita Goyal
5. "Time's carcase": Waste, labour, and finance capital in the Atlantic world-ecology
Michael Niblett
6. From the Novela de la Cana to Junot Diaz's "cake-eater": World-literature, the world-food-system and the Dominican Republic
Kerstin Oloff
7. Water shocks: Neoliberal hydrofiction and the crisis of "cheap water"
Sharae Deckard
8. From fishery limits to limits to capital: Gendered appropriation and spectres of North Atlantic fishery collapse in The Silver Darlings and Sylvanus Now
Michael Paye
9. Feminist politics and semiperipheral poetics: Eavan Boland and Aislinn Hunter
Sorcha Gunne
Neil Lazarus and Sorcha Gunne
1. The world-literary system and the Atlantic: Combined and uneven development - an interview with Stephen Shapiro
Neil Lazarus
2. Three early modern genres: A microhistorical approach to "world literature"
William Boelhower
3. Contesting slavery in the global market: John Brown's Slave Life in Georgia
Michael J. Drexler and Stephanie Scherer
4. On transnational analogy: Thinking race and caste with W. E. B. Du Bois and Rabindranath Tagore
Yogita Goyal
5. "Time's carcase": Waste, labour, and finance capital in the Atlantic world-ecology
Michael Niblett
6. From the Novela de la Cana to Junot Diaz's "cake-eater": World-literature, the world-food-system and the Dominican Republic
Kerstin Oloff
7. Water shocks: Neoliberal hydrofiction and the crisis of "cheap water"
Sharae Deckard
8. From fishery limits to limits to capital: Gendered appropriation and spectres of North Atlantic fishery collapse in The Silver Darlings and Sylvanus Now
Michael Paye
9. Feminist politics and semiperipheral poetics: Eavan Boland and Aislinn Hunter
Sorcha Gunne