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Globalisation du roman et figuration de l’agent : considérations anthropologico-littéraires à partir de M. Houellebecq, A. Ernaux, P. Grace et A. Kourouma
Cet article appréhende la globalisation du roman comme un exercice de décentrement qui permet de relire les théories usuelles du genre romanesque et...
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Détonnants voyageurs
Après avoir dressé une brève esquisse des grands types de déplacements qui unissent l’Afrique à l’Europe et à l’Amérique, et qui appellent une série...
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Abdelilah Hamdouchi’s Whitefly: Transnational Crime, Globalisation and the Arabic Police Procedural
Guldimann proposes that Abdelilah Hamdouchi’s Whitefly (2016) is a pioneering example of the international crime novel’s capacity to reflect...
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Alterity and divergence: reflections on interculturality via Levinas and Jullien
The three kinds of differences distinguished in Emmanuel Levinas’ thinking, along with François Jullien’s relevant elaborations, are utilised to...
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Nostromo: The Nation, Nation Formation, Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism
Where The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ carefully brackets out the economic dimension of ship** as part of Conrad’s exclusion of ‘land entanglements’,...
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“Worlds in Collision”: Salman Rushdie, Globalisation, and Postcoloniality-in-Crisis
This chapter maps a transition from the postcolonial disenchantment of Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last SighRushdie, Salman The Moor’s Last Sigh...
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Aesthetic Attitudes to Globalisation: Rana Dasgupta, Capitalism-in-Crisis, and Narrating the World
This chapter examines Rana DasguptaDasgupta, Rana’s short-story cycle Tokyo Cancelled (2005)Dasgupta, Rana and bipartite novel Solo (2009)Dasgupta,...
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Conclusion
This concluding chapter brings together the main conclusions derived from analysing Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy from a transoceanic perspective. It...
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Beyond Circulation
In this article, I reflect on some of the central concepts that inform the current Anglo-Saxon discourse of world literature; I am particularly...
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Introduction
Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy—Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011) and Flood of Fire (2015)—is one of the most outstanding contributions to sea...
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‘Culinary Cultures’: Theorising Postcolonial Food Cultures
This chapter reflects on the theory and practice of using interdisciplinary food studies to teach across global spaces on a research-led...
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Istanbul Meets Its New Members: An Overview of Istanbul’s History as Regards Migration
Cengiz analyses the interrelated dynamics between the following phenomena: the divide between urbanites and rural migrants in the 1950s; economic and...
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Of Hongs, Achhas and Fanqui-Town: Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke (2011)
This chapter analyses Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke (2011), which moves the oceanic focus of the trilogy to the east to situate the narration in the...
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Introduction
In his 1908 review of A Set of Six, Robert Lynd famously referred to Conrad as ‘a homeless person’, ‘without either country or language’. Lynd...
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Are there limits to globalising the medieval?
The aim of this article is threefold: firstly, it seeks to critique, from the perspective of Iberian and Latin American studies, the Eurocentrism...
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Systemic Violence in the Borderlands: Anthony J. Quinn’s Border Angels and Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s Desert Blood
McCarney draws attention to the fact that while the crime genre undoubtedly benefits from globalisation, critics have questioned whether crime...
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Transcending the national: on worlding the peripheral literatures
The study is concerned with contemporary theoretical concepts of world literature (“literature of the world”, “worldliness of literature”, “world...
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An Archaeology of Cosmopolitanisms
This chapter is dedicated to an investigation of the term ‘cosmopolitan’ and the ideas associated with it. It begins with the definition of the word...
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Hallucination, Localisation, and Folk Narrative Tradition: Mo Yan and Literary Criticism
The difference, argument, or consensus caused in the criticism of Mo Yan embodies the confusion, exploration, and pain at this stage of the era. Mo...
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The Eco-Hero in Malaysian Novels: From Solitary Figures to Group Solidarity
This chapter is informed by Tim (Poland, Western American Literature 26:195–208, 1991) concept of the “eco-hero”, who “seeks and nurtures diversity...