A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature

by Jacob Edmond

Book Overview

Why is our world still understood through binary oppositions-East and West, local and global, common and strange-that ought to have crumbled with the Berlin Wall? What might literary responses to the events that ushered in our era of globalization tell us about the rhetorical and historical underpinnings of these dichotomies?

In A Common Strangeness, Jacob Edmond exemplifies a new, multilingual and multilateral approach to literary and cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823242609
• ISBN13: 9780823242603
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Modern Language Initiative
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"