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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 231–238.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Carolyn Vellenga Berman What is the “world” in “world literature”? In publishing, as in literary criticism, this term often applies to the leftovers of the international literary market: works not drawn from the major national publishing markets. It signifies, in effect, “the rest of the world...
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 132–136.
Published: 01 May 2020
... broader questions on how the field of world literature is constituted in Euro-American academies and institutions; on what underpins our assumptions when reading literary works from different regions, especially those from the global South; and on the chasm between local and global forms of reception...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 322–338.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Lily Saint Abstract This essay challenges recent theories of world literature that argue that the global anglophone novel, in particular, instantiates empathic, ethical connection across and beyond nation-states. Taking cues from Teju Cole's Open City , it understands the urge to connect...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 288–290.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Krupa Shandilya Mufti Aamir , Forget English! Orientalisms and World Literatures ( Cambridge : Harvard UP , 2016 ), pp. 304, cloth, $35.00 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 In recent years, the field of comparative literature has seen the emergence of a new...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 329–337.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Jonathan Arac Examining changes in the study of the novel since Novel began publication in 1967, this essay focuses on the current importance of world literature as a topic for debate and exploration and suggests that complex relationships with the study of postcolonial literature have helped...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 216–239.
Published: 01 November 2007
.... Youth . London: Secker, 2002 . Coetzee , J. M. Vers l’âge d’homme . [French translation of Youth] Trans. Catherine Lauga Du Plessis. Paris: Seuil, 2003 . Damrosch , David . What is World Literature? Princeton: Princeton UP, 2003 . Gikandi , Simon . “Globalization...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 43–56.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Ban Wang During his tenure in the Lu Xun Academy in Yan'an, the center of the Chinese Revolution, the novelist Zhou Libo ran a seminar on world literature. While teaching masterpieces of European novelists, Zhou developed a theory of the novel that inherited themes of liberal humanism...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 334–337.
Published: 01 August 2019
..., or theater, which then exert a decisive influence on the literary texts in which they are embedded (4–5). This reorientation of universalism allows us to think differently about two of its most renowned examples—namely, democracy and world literature. Rather than regard the European parliamentary democratic...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 347–368.
Published: 01 November 2019
... literature into the mechanism of the world literary system, writers and translators transformed localism into an assimilable cult of culture. By looking at the shift of value in Chinese literature in the 1980s in relation to a change of consciousness in Euro-American literary culture in the same period...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 36–59.
Published: 01 May 2018
... that the once peripheral literature and cinema that conformed to Fredric Jameson's definition of Third World national allegories can now be read as symptoms of First World cultural production. This historical and aesthetic shift has made itself felt at the heart of Israeli daily life in the rearticulation...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 400–409.
Published: 01 November 2009
...-world literatures in the twentieth century. Markandaya's career, with its demonstrably spectacular beginning and dismal end, helps us see the kind of nationalist postures that were tacitly or explicitly expected (by those in the western and the Indian literary, academic, and publishing worlds...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 101–116.
Published: 01 May 2018
... from the island of Cuba and its staples of tobacco, sugar, and scarce food—allows for a reconsideration of the role of objects in fiction both as stand-ins for social relations and as agents in their own right. In closing, the essay outlines three principles for a world literature infused...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 103–121.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Madigan Haley This essay approaches the global as an ethos emergent within contemporary fiction, taking J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace (1999) as its primary example. Recent accounts of global or world literature have generally considered these solely as spheres of circulation, while dominant accounts...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 338–350.
Published: 01 November 2017
... theoretical attempts to formulate global or world systems of literature. Drawing on Franco Moretti's recent call for us to “unlearn” our traditional literary training, they contend that novels defy any attempt to confine them to the boundaries of the individual work or a national tradition, raising basic...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 23–26.
Published: 01 May 2012
... . Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University , Durham, NC . 29 Apr. 2011 . Damrosch David . What Is World Literature? Princeton : Princeton UP , 2003 . Sommer Doris . Proceed with Caution, When Engaged with Minority Writing in the Americas . Cambridge, MA : Harvard UP...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 518–546.
Published: 01 November 2022
... conditions of possibility, so to speak—provides the larger perspective in which it can be seen in dialectical relation to contemporary literature and culture. My interest in this essay is to ask what constitutes the singular modality of the only museum in the world inspired by a novel and the only novel...
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 367–388.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., embodies a type that the most influential current of novel theory has made difficult to credit, perhaps even to recognize: the reverse quixote , a character who ostentatiously resists conflating literature and life or viewing the world and experience through the lens of literature—but who would benefit...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 466–482.
Published: 01 November 2010
... about how to live in an increasingly transnational and compressed global world. Ultimately, I aim to determine what this utterly new type of novel can and does say about literature, and from that to better understand Coetzee's thoughts on literature at this late stage in his career. Works Cited...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 399–416.
Published: 01 November 2018
... 52 . 1 ( 2009 ): 95 – 105 . Thorne Christian . “ The Sea Is Not a Place; or, Putting the World Back into World Literature .” boundary 2 40 . 2 ( 2013 ): 53 – 79 . Viswanathan Gauri . Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India . New York : Columbia UP...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 375–398.
Published: 01 November 2018
... this might be true of American writing, I would argue that a consideration of international fiction produces different results. American creative writing programs produce international writers who are often compelled to identify themselves as allies to the concept of “world literature.” 14 This is hardly...
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