Beskrivning
Beskrivning
This volume approaches literary representations of post andneocolonialism by combining their readings with respective theoreticalconfigurations. The aim is to cast light upon common characteristics ofcontemporary texts from around the world that deal with processes ofcolonization. Based on the epistemic discourses ofpostimperialism/postcolonialism, globalization, and world literature,the volume’s chapters bring together international scholars from variousdisciplines in the Humanities, including Comparative Cultural Studies,Slavic, Romance, German, and African Studies. The main concern of thecontributions is to conceptualize an autonomous category of a worldliterature of the colonial, going well beyond establishedclassifications according to single languages or center-peripherydichotomies.
