A Cosmopolitan North in Nordic Noir: Turning Swedish Crime Fiction into World Literature
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Publisher:Stockholm University Press
By: Louise Nilsson
Table of contents
General Introduction: The Cosmopolitan and the Vernacular in Interaction
Introduction to Part 1
Le Vernaculaire: A Brief Lexical History in French
One Country, Several Literatures: Towards a Comparative Understanding of Contemporary Literature in Spain
Beyond Chineseness: De-Nationalising and De-Sinicising Modern Chinese Literature
“The Original Romance of America”: Slave Narratives and Transnational Networks in Theodore Parker’s American Literary History
Reformist Discourses: Classical Literary Language Versus Modern Written Vernacular in Lu Xun’s Short Story “A Madman’s Diary”
Reflections on Gender and Small Languages in World Literature Scholarship: Methods of Inclusions and Exclusions
Introduction to Part 2
Locating Chronic Violence: Billy Kahora’s “How to Eat a Forest”
Diasporic Divides: Location and Orientations of “Home” in Pooneh Rohi’s Araben
Zuhura the African Lioness: Performance Poetry, Digital Media and the Transnational Tangle in World Literature
Literary Ecologies and Post-9/11 Muslim Writing
Worldly Vernaculars in the Anglophone Caribbean
Introduction to Part 3
Literary World-Making under Apartheid: Staffrider and the Location of Print Culture
Documentary Modernism: Worldly Sympathies, Ideal Collectivities and Dissenting Individualism
In Conquest of the World and of Modernity: Movements from the Countryside to Paris in Novels by Stendhal, Balzac and Flaubert
The Contemporary Russian Cosmopolitans
A World Apart and the World at Large: Expressing Siberian Exile
Seclusion versus Accessibility: The Harems of Constantinople as Aesthetic Worlds in Stories by Elsa Lindberg-Dovlette
The Travelling Story of Pettersson in the Pacific
Indian Imaginaries in World Literature and Domestic Popular Culture
Introduction to Part 4
Translation Bibliomigrancy: The Case of Contemporary Caribbean Literature in Scandinavia
Profiles of Italy: Localising Practices of Swedish Publishing Houses
Literary Migration as Transformation
A Cosmopolitan North in Nordic Noir: Turning Swedish Crime Fiction into World Literature
Swedes in French: Cultural Transfer from Periphery to Literary Metropolis
Gender and the Circulation of African Lusophone Literature into the Portuguese Literary System
World Literary Studies and East African Anglophone Literature
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PDF ISBN: 978-91-7635-076-8 | E-Pub ISBN: 978-91-7635-077-5 | Mobi ISBN: 978-91-7635-078-2 | Hardback ISBN: 978-91-7635-079-9 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/bat
Publisher: Stockholm University Press
Publication date: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 432
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