Overview

On what terms and concepts can we ground the comparative study of Anglophone literatures and cultures around the world today? What, if anything, unites the novels of Witi Ihimaera, the speculative fiction of Nnedi Okorafor, the life-writings by Stuart Hall, and the emerging Anglophone Arab literature by writers like Omar Robert Hamilton? This volume explores the globality of Anglophone fiction both as a conceptual framing and as a literary imaginary. It highlights the diversity of lives and worlds represented in Anglophone writing, as well as the diverse imaginations of transnational connections articulated in it. Featuring a variety of internationally renowned scholars, this book thinks through Anglophone literature not as a problematic legacy of colonial rule or as exoticizing commodity in a global literary marketplace but examines it as an inherently transcultural literary medium. Contributors provide new insights into how it facilitates the articulation of divergent experiences of modernity and the critique of hierarchies and inequalities within, among, and beyond post-colonial societies.

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The intellectual sophistication of [this book's] contributors and the impressive breadth of sources and traditions under their command offer practical value for readers interested not only in global networks of culture, literature, and language, but also in the several voyages of vital, complex, and well-traveled scholarly traditions as they likewise intermingle and relate, translate, to-and-fro. * Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association *

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Silvia Anastasijevic is a doctoral researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt and a research assistant at the University of Bonn, Germany. Magdalena Pfalzgraf is Junior Professor of English Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bonn, Germany. Hanna Teichler is a postdoctoral researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.

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