Mapping Minor/Small and World Literatures
Periphery and Center
Published on 5. June 2024
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-1-6669-4466-2 (ISBN)
Description
Mapping Minor/Small and World Literatures: Periphery and Center makes a declarative intervention in debates about world literature, redefining the boundaries between the center and periphery to rejuvenate long-established assumptions about significance and insignificance. In this book, African American literature (emerging from the often overlooked pink periphery, a cramped space of minor literature), works from the Faroe Islands, Basque literature, First Nation Canadian literature, Western narratives about peripheral China, Kurdish literature, the ultraminor literary space of Antigua, the 'favela' of Brazilian literature, as well as the hyperlocal narratives of Australian and New Zealand literature are all studied for their meaningful role within the world literary system. Additionally, working-class writing and the literary contributions of individuals on the margins of their own societies are given a voice, ensuring that the world literary space does not merely represent the perspectives of dominant elites. Unlike other descriptions of world literature, which have frequently allowed the grandeur and breadth of the global to overshadow the imperative for authentic literary biodiversity, this anthology, featuring contributions from diverse scholars representing various countries and backgrounds, actively deconstructs the structures of power and domination inherent in Western-European-centered world literature, minor literature, and small literature.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
594 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6669-4466-2 (9781666944662)
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E-Book
06/2024
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Lexington Books
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Persons
Yanli He is assistant professor in the College of Literature and Journalism at Sichuan University in China.
Nicholas Birns teaches at New York University.
Nicholas Birns teaches at New York University.
Content
List of Figures
Introduction: It was Pink on the Map: Periphery and Central Literary Spaces of World Literature
Part One: From Minor to Ultraminor Literary Space
Chapter 1: Erasing the Pink on the World Atlas: Re-Mapping African American Literature, Yanli He
Chapter 2: A Cramped Space: Revisiting Minor Literature from a Decentered Center and Displaced Periphery, Rahime Cokay Nebioglu
Chapter 3: Ultraminor Nation and Literature: William Heinesen as a Nobel Prize Candidate from the Faroe Islands, Bergur Ronne Moberg
Part Two: From Marginal, Regional, National to World Literary Space
Chapter 4: Cultural Discontent in Basque Literature: An Geocritical Approach in Spanish Literature and World Literature, Iker Arranz
Chapter 5: The Literary Space of Canadian Native Literature in Canadian Literature, Jonathan Locke Hart
Chapter 6: From T-O Map to Big Game: Navigating the Journey of Asia, China, and Southwest China in Western Atlas, Yanli He
Chapter 7: Eurocentric Aestheticism, Reproducer of Western Symbolic Hegemony: Form-Politics Analysis in Ata Nahai's Kurdish Nove: Birds in Gale, Kawan Mohammadpur
Part Three: Hyperlocal Literary Space and the Global South
Chapter 8: Delinquent Itinerary: Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place in World Literature, Ryan Winet
Chapter 9: Autobiographical Impulse and Peripheral Subjectivation in Carolina Maria de Jesus's Diaries, Fabio Akcelrud Durao
Chapter 10: The Hyperlocal and Conjectural Spaces of Australian and New Zealand Literatures in the World System, Nicholas Birns
Epilogue: A World in Which Nothing is Pink on the Map: New Minor, Small, and World Literary Atlas
About the Contributors
Introduction: It was Pink on the Map: Periphery and Central Literary Spaces of World Literature
Part One: From Minor to Ultraminor Literary Space
Chapter 1: Erasing the Pink on the World Atlas: Re-Mapping African American Literature, Yanli He
Chapter 2: A Cramped Space: Revisiting Minor Literature from a Decentered Center and Displaced Periphery, Rahime Cokay Nebioglu
Chapter 3: Ultraminor Nation and Literature: William Heinesen as a Nobel Prize Candidate from the Faroe Islands, Bergur Ronne Moberg
Part Two: From Marginal, Regional, National to World Literary Space
Chapter 4: Cultural Discontent in Basque Literature: An Geocritical Approach in Spanish Literature and World Literature, Iker Arranz
Chapter 5: The Literary Space of Canadian Native Literature in Canadian Literature, Jonathan Locke Hart
Chapter 6: From T-O Map to Big Game: Navigating the Journey of Asia, China, and Southwest China in Western Atlas, Yanli He
Chapter 7: Eurocentric Aestheticism, Reproducer of Western Symbolic Hegemony: Form-Politics Analysis in Ata Nahai's Kurdish Nove: Birds in Gale, Kawan Mohammadpur
Part Three: Hyperlocal Literary Space and the Global South
Chapter 8: Delinquent Itinerary: Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place in World Literature, Ryan Winet
Chapter 9: Autobiographical Impulse and Peripheral Subjectivation in Carolina Maria de Jesus's Diaries, Fabio Akcelrud Durao
Chapter 10: The Hyperlocal and Conjectural Spaces of Australian and New Zealand Literatures in the World System, Nicholas Birns
Epilogue: A World in Which Nothing is Pink on the Map: New Minor, Small, and World Literary Atlas
About the Contributors