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Swedish-Language Literature in Finland: From a National to a Minority Literature
Along with literature written in Finnish, that written in Swedish has always played a major role in the literature of the country; indeed, down till...
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Migration, Romani Writers, and the Question of National Literature
In the context of the vast mobility of Roma populations during their initial waves of migration, but also after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989...
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Censor’s scissors in Croatian literature: Sha** a(n) (inter)national community
Using some of the best-known examples from Croatian literature, this article examines the influence of censors on sha** the literary field in the...
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Storytelling for a republic of childhood: rebranding China’s national images in children’s literature
This article delineates the discursive trajectory of Chinese children’s literature and explicates its specific storytelling strategies to integrate...
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“National Revolution” and the Rise of Left-Wing Literature
In 1927, the new Nationalist Government set up its capital in Nan**g, which marked the southward shift of China’s political and cultural center, and...
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Studying Literary Multilingualism, Revisiting National Philology: Post-Imperial East-Central European Literature as a Testing Ground
This chapter discusses recent theoretical attempts to redefine national philology through a focus on literary multilingualism, by looking at them...
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National Literature – World Literature – Literatures of the World: The Example of French-Language Contemporary Literatures from the Caribbean
Where do contemporary French-language literatures from the Caribbean stand in the field of tension between national literature and world literature?...
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Dutch-Language Literature and World Literature
What is the situation of Dutch-language literature in world literature studies? How does this literature fare in world literature anthologies and...
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Representations of Istanbul at the intersection of modern Turkish literature and world literature
As the cultural capital of both the Ottoman Empire and Republic of Turkey, Istanbul has assumed a central role in the literary imagination of the...
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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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Translating the Literature of Marginalized Nations and the Construction of a National Culture in the People’s Republic of China
The founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was the first time in history that China had been consolidated as a country of independence and...
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Prosperity of Popular Literature
Popular literature has a long tradition in China and encompasses a wide range of ballads, ci and qu, novels, and legends. Although it was never...
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Music Transformation in Literature
This chapter explores the roles of music in literature and how the representation of musical sounds, forms, and genres transforms literature. The...
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200 Years of National Philologies From Romanticism to Globalization
The 17 contributions in this volume pursue a positioning of the philologies, which - based on the 'Volksgeist' (popular spirit) of the 19th century...
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Zeitgeist Literature
Zeitgeist Literature is offered here as a term with great potential as a conceptual tool for analyzing literature that responds to the moment in...
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Medio-Translatology in Practice (II): From Translated Literature to Its Histories
Translated literature serves as a vehicle that “transports” foreign literature to different parts of the world, as well as to a wider range of...
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Introduction to the special issue World literature and the strategies of nation-building
The introduction gives a survey of recent developments in cultural nationalism and world literature studies. I argue that these trends have come to...
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Introduction: Decolonizing Italian Literature
In this introductory chapter to the book, Italian postcolonial literature is presented as one of the most historically significant, culturally...
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National Consciousness Versus Cosmopolitan Consciousness: Rabindranath Tagore in China
Rabindranath Tagore can be considered as a typical writer from a colonized country, and it is natural that his sense of national identity should be...
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“Literature Revolution” and “New Literature of May Fourth”
In 1915, Youth Magazine was born in Shanghai with Chen Duxiu as the editor in chief. This fellow publication gathered a group of former writers from...