Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age. David Damrosch. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. x+386.

2021 ◽  
pp. E000-E000
Author(s):  
Alexander Beecroft
Keyword(s):  
Literary Studies ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Global Age ◽  
David Damrosch

scholarly journals Svetovna primerjalna književnost

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Blaž Zabel
Keyword(s):  
Literary Studies ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Global Age ◽  
David Damrosch

David Damrosch: Comparing the Literatures. Literary Studies in a Global Age. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. 386 str.

scholarly journals Decentred Geographies: Poetics and Politics of the Avant-garde

2020 ◽  
pp. 49-66
Author(s):  
Zrinka Božić Blanuša
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Primary Interest ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Franco Moretti ◽  
David Damrosch ◽  
Definition Of

Thanks to the work of Pascale Casanova, Franco Moretti, David Damrosch and many others, over the past two decades, the concept of world literature has once again become the subject of thorough examination within the field of literary studies, especially in relation to cosmopolitanism and globalization. When it comes to the study of individual national literatures and specific regional contexts, as well as to the definition of comparative literature as a discipline, debates regarding its background, its reach and limitations could not be ignored. World literature thus appears as a heterogenous entity – always manifesting in different contexts in different forms – consistently in dialogical exchange with specificities of a particular literature and culture. Instead of discussing the problematic relation between centre and periphery or criticizing the idea of global literary and cultural canon, the avant-garde as an international and global phenomenon that appears even more radically on the so-called periphery is what is of primary interest to me. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that avant-garde (in its various forms and radical expressions) simultaneously challenges art as an institution and introduces the idea of a decentred geography of world literature.

African Literature in the Post-Global Age: Provocations on Field Commonsense

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tejumola Olaniyan
Keyword(s):  
African Literature ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Global Age ◽  
Methods Of Application

An exploration of African literary studies and what might be its most salient and informed tools of self-constitution and self-understanding in the contemporary moment. More than half a century after formal literary studies emerged in Africa, much of the field is still fixated with a deep suspicion of the true provenance of its own production. The paper theoretically distills some of the expressed or implied evaluative canons of belonging, explores their methods of application, and critically assesses their contemporary relevance—or even resonance. The goal is to arrive at what might be a most enabling conception of African letters for an age I conceive as “post-global.”

An Intellectual History of African Literary Studies?

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 296-306
Author(s):  
Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
African Literature ◽  
First Century ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Global Age ◽  
Global Condition ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century

AbstractTwenty-first-century African literary production has generated a number of conundrums for scholars invested in African literary studies as one recognizable field of study. Some of these conundrums drive Tejumola Olaniyan’s declaration of a post-global condition in African literary studies in “African Literature in the Post-Global Age.” Understanding that essay demands a detour through an intellectual history of African literary studies from about 1990 to 2010.

What Is a World (Literature)?

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-329
Author(s):  
Pheng Cheah ◽  
David Damrosch
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Postcolonial Literature ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Question And Answer ◽  
David Damrosch ◽  
The University

Abstract The following is an edited transcript of a presentation by Pheng Cheah on his book What Is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature, followed by a discussion with David Damrosch, with selections from the question and answer period. The event took place on the opening day of the July 2018 session of the Institute of World Literature, hosted by Professor Mitsuyoshi Numano and the Department of Contemporary Literary Studies at the University of Tokyo.

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