| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
Cosmopolitan-vernacular dynamics in world literatures ; 3
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Reimagines the vernacular as a critical concept for rethinking world literatures"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Contents |
Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Series Introduction -- The Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamic: Conjunctions of World Literature -- Helena Bodin (Stockholm University, Sweden), Stefan Helgesson (Stockholm University, Sweden), Christina Kulberg (Uppsala University, Sweden), Paul Tenngart (Lund University, Sweden), and Helena Wulff (Stockholm University, Sweden) -- Introduction: Theorizing the Vernacular -- Christina Kullberg and David Watson (Uppsala University, Sweden) -- 1. Contextualizing the Vernacular: Signposts from African Language, Writing, and Literature -- Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California Davis, USA) -- 2. Vernacular Resistance: Catalan, Basque, and Galician Opposition to Francoist Monolingualism -- Christian Claesson (Lund University, Sweden) -- 3. The Modern Adventures of Kanian Poongundranar, Classical Tamil Poet: Reflections on Literatures of the World, Vernacularly Speaking -- Subramanian Shankar (University of Hawai'i, USA) -- 4. Vernacular Soundings: Poetry from the Lesser Antilles in the Aftermaths of Hurricanes Irma and Maria -- Christina Kullberg (Uppsala University, Sweden) -- 5. From Fesiten to Fesibuku: Shifting Priorities in the Saamanka Vernacular -- Richard Price and Sally Price (College of William and Mary, USA) -- 6. Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in Modern Chinese Fiction and Lao She's Satirical Novel Cat Country -- Lena Rydholm (Uppsala University, Sweden) -- 7. Worldly Themes and Vernacular Literature: Aino Kallas on Gender, Ethnicity, and Class -- Katarina Leppänen (Gothenburg University, Sweden) -- 8. Specters of the Vernacular: Neoliberalism, World Literature, and Marlon James' A Brief History of Seven Killings -- David Watson (Uppsala University, Sweden) -- 9. Vernacular Imagination and Exophone Reconfiguration in Francophone Chinese Diasporic Literature -- Shuangyi Li (Lund University, Sweden) -- Afterword: A Vernacular Future? -- Galin Tihanov (Queen Mary University, UK) -- Index |
| Local Note |
Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Open Access |
| Subject |
Vernacular literature.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers,Literary theory,Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Essay.
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essays.
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Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
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Literary criticism. (OCoLC)fst01986215
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Essays.
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Literary criticism.
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| Added Author |
Kullberg, Christina, 1973- editor.
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Watson, David, 1974- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Vernaculars in an age of world literatures New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022 9781501374050 (DLC) 2021041829 |
| ISBN |
9781501374074 (pdf) |
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1501374079 |
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9781501374050 (hardback) |
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9781501374067 (epub) |
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1501374060 |
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9781501374098 (paperback) |
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