Tag Archives: World Literature

In the Cold War, was world literature English?

By | August 16, 2022
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What is “Cold War literature”? Does the term merely refer to novels and poems and plays that explicitly touch on nuclear war, spying, and fear of Communism, works like Nevil Shute’s On The Beach or Eugene Lederer’s The Ugly American

The Relocation of Culture: Translations, Migrations, Borders

By | June 7, 2021
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This volume springs from reasons that are both personal and collective and that relate to the issues of relocation and translation in a way that combines language, culture and experience. T

Revisiting National Literatures in the 21st Century

By | May 30, 2018
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Guest post by Christian Moraru Romanian Literature as World Literature is an essay collection the contributions to which were workshopped at the first edition of the Paltinis Critical Theory Institute, outside the city of Sibiu, Romania, in October 2015, and then coedited by Professor Mircea Martin, Professor Terian, and myself. A world premiere, the book… Read More »

KARVAN: travelling the world through literature and poetry

By | August 6, 2014
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New Guest post from author E. Dawson Varughese! The author of Bloomsbury’s Reading New India doesn’t simply keep her world literature interests between the covers of her books. E. Dawson Varughese takes her literary arts installation the KARVAN to literary festivals, schools and libraries so that people can travel the world through poetry and fiction.… Read More »