Literatures, Communities, Worlds

Literatures, Communities, Worlds explores the consciousness of global connections in various literary milieus across the world. While world literature is a well-established theoretical perspective, previous research has often concentrated on literary works available in English translation, predominantly published and marketed by US publishing houses. This reflects a US-American vision of the world. The present volume, by contrast, looks at different, or competing, intellectual and cultural communities in Asia, Europe, and the Americas from the thirteenth century to the present. Literatures, Communities, Worlds reveals a diversity of world-making efforts and cosmological conceptions in literary media throughout centuries of entangled practice. The chapters provide fresh insights into worlds of literature in multiple linguistic traditions, enriching the current debate on global literary and intellectual connections beyond English.

Prof. Dr. Chunjie Zhang (Associate Professor of German, University of California, Davis).
Prof. Dr. Miltos Pechlivanos (Professor für Neogräzistik, Freie Universität Berlin).
Prof. Dr. Frank Kelleter (Chair of the Department of Culture and Einstein Professor of North American Cultural History at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin)
Dr. Samira Spatzek (Postdoctoral Researcher in American Studies and Academic Coordinator, EXC 2020 Temporal Communities, Freie Universität Berlin).
Prof. Dr. Dustin Breitenwischer (Associate professor of American Studies, Universität Hamburg).