In this English translation and revision of her acclaimed German-language book, Elke Sturm-Trigonakis expands on Goethe’s notion of
Weltliteratur (1827) to propose that, owing to globalization, literature is undergoing a profound change in process, content, and linguistic practice. Rather than producing texts for a primarily national readership, modern writers can collate diverse cultural, literary, and linguistic traditions to create new modes of expression that she designates as ‘hybrid texts.’ The author introduces an innovative framework to analyse these new forms of expression that is based on comparative cultural studies and its methodology of contextual (systemic and empirical) approaches to the study of literature and culture, including the concepts of the macro-and micro-systems of culture and literature. To illustrate her proposition, Sturm-Trigonakis discusses selected literary texts that exhibit characteristics of linguistic and cultural hybridity, the concept of ‘in-between, ‘ and transculturality and thus are located in a space of a ‘new world literature.’ Examples include
Gastarbeiterliteratur (‘migrant literature’) by authors such as Chiellino, Shami, and Atabay. The book is important reading for philologists, linguists, sociologists, and other scholars interested in the cultural and linguistic impact of globalization on literature and culture. The German edition of this volume was originally published as
Global playing in der Literatur. Ein Versuch über die Neue Weltliteratur (2007) and it has been translated in collaboration with the author by Athanasia Margoni and Maria Kaisar.
Inhoudsopgave
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Goethe’s
Weltliteratur and the Career of an Idea
Chapter Two: Hybrid Literary Texts and Philological Paradigms
Chapter Three: New World Literature and a Systemic Organization of Hybrid Fiction
Chapter Four: Forms/Types of Poetic Multilingualism and Interferences, Metamultilingualism, and Transtextuality
Chapter Five: Multilingualism as Poetic Strategy
Chapter Six: Nomadic Biographies in New World Literature
Chapter Seven: Transnational Spaces, Places, and Layers of Time
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index
Over de auteur
Elke Sturm-Trigonakis teaches comparative literature and German literature at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her interests in research include multilingual and hybrid world literature, the picaresque, crime fiction, urban literature, and the transfer of literary themes (e.g., Don Quijote, Don Juan). In addition to numerous articles in German, Spanish, and English, her book publications include
Barcelona in der Literatur (1944-88) (1993),
Barcelona. La novel. La urbana (1944-88) (1996), and
Global playing in der Literatur. Ein Versuch über die Neue Weltliteratur (2007).
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