World Literature in an Age of Geopolitics

by Theo D'haen

Book Overview

If you want to know how globalisation affects literary studies today this is the book for you. Why has world literature become so hotly debated? How does it affect the study of national literatures? What does geopolitics have to do with literature? Does American academe still set an example for the rest of the world? Is China taking over? What about European literature? Europe's literatures? Do "minor" European literatures get lost in the shuffle?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900454674X
• ISBN13: 9789004546745
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 198 Pages