Vernaculars in an age of world literatures

"Reimagines the vernacular as a critical concept for rethinking world literatures"

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Watson, David, editor (editor), Kullberg, Christina, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic 2022.
Edición:First edition
Colección:Cosmopolitan-vernacular dynamics in world literatures
Materias:
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Series Introduction - The Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamic: Conjunctions of World Literature
  • Helena Bodin (Stockholm University, Sweden), Stefan Helgesson (Stockholm University, Sweden), Christina Kulberg (Uppsala University, Sweden), Paul Tenngart (Lund University, Sweden), and Helena Wulff (Stockholm University, Sweden)
  • Introduction: Theorizing the Vernacular
  • Christina Kullberg and David Watson (Uppsala University, Sweden)
  • 1. Contextualizing the Vernacular: Signposts from African Language, Writing, and Literature
  • Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California Davis, USA)
  • 2. Vernacular Resistance: Catalan, Basque, and Galician Opposition to Francoist Monolingualism
  • Christian Claesson (Lund University, Sweden)
  • 3. The Modern Adventures of Kanian Poongundranar, Classical Tamil Poet: Reflections on Literatures of the World, Vernacularly Speaking
  • Subramanian Shankar (University of Hawai'i, USA)
  • 4. Vernacular Soundings: Poetry from the Lesser Antilles in the Aftermaths of Hurricanes Irma and Maria
  • Christina Kullberg (Uppsala University, Sweden)
  • 5. From Fesiten to Fesibuku: Shifting Priorities in the Saamanka Vernacular
  • Richard Price and Sally Price (College of William and Mary, USA)
  • 6. Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in Modern Chinese Fiction and Lao She's Satirical Novel Cat Country
  • Lena Rydholm (Uppsala University, Sweden)
  • 7. Worldly Themes and Vernacular Literature: Aino Kallas on Gender, Ethnicity, and Class
  • Katarina Leppänen (Gothenburg University, Sweden)
  • 8. Specters of the Vernacular: Neoliberalism, World Literature, and Marlon James' A Brief History of Seven Killings
  • David Watson (Uppsala University, Sweden)
  • 9. Vernacular Imagination and Exophone Reconfiguration in Francophone Chinese Diasporic Literature
  • Shuangyi Li (Lund University, Sweden)
  • Afterword: A Vernacular Future?
  • Galin Tihanov (Queen Mary University, UK)
  • Index