Description: Assembling renowned international scholars to explore different conceptual framings of Anglophone writing worldwide, this book highlights both its function as a shared global literary medium and its diversity in terms of form, medium, and content.
Brief description: Hanna Teichler is postdoctoral researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Review Quotes:
"The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature has a broad potential appeal. The intellectual sophistication of its contributors and the impressive breadth of sources and traditions under their command offer practical value for readers interested not only in global networks of culture, literature, and language, but also in the several voyages of vital, complex, and well-traveled scholarly traditions as they likewise intermingle and relate, translate, to-and-fro." --Intelligence
"The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature succeeds in presenting Anglophone writing as a site of transcultural engagement that is neither reducible to colonial history nor to market globalization. The volume's geographic reach ... resists the gravitational pull of the West as sole point of triangulation. At the same time, it remains attentive to the structural inequalities that shape literary circulation and reception." --Knowledge Commons "The volume showcases the productivity of a transcultural approach in contemporary English literary studies ... This new paradigm not only complicates the traditional understanding of local knowledge and global frames by regarding them as mutual encounters, but also provides profound insights for reading world literature both in and beyond English." --Forum for Modern Language Studies "I would [...] like to underscore the utility of The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature for those working with fiction, documentary, and life writing, and archival and legal documents. The editors of this volume have thus provided an excellent reference work for scholars to engage with decolonial practices, reflect on new anglophone writing, and build upon Schulze-Engler's critical vocabularies around transculturality." --Journal of Postcolonial Writing "The intellectual sophistication of [this book's] contributors and the impressive breadth of sources and traditions under their command offer practical value for readers interested not only in global networks of culture, literature, and language, but also in the several voyages of vital, complex, and well-traveled scholarly traditions as they likewise intermingle and relate, translate, to-and-fro." --Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association