Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: New World Studies
African American and Caribbean Routes of World Literature
Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: New World Studies
ISBN: 978-0-8139-3573-7
Verlag: University of Virginia Press
In Sounding the Break, Jason Frydman attempts to redress this exclusion by drawing on historiography, ethnography, and archival sources to show how writers such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Alejo Carpentier, Derek Walcott, Maryse Condé, and Toni Morrison have complicated both Eurocentric and Afrocentric categories of literary and cultural production. Through their engagement with and revision of the European world literature discourse, he contends, these writers conjure a deep history of ""literary traffic"" whose expressions are always already cosmopolitan, embedded in the long histories of cultural and economic exchange between Africa, Asia, and Europe. It is precisely the New World American location of these writers, Frydman concludes, that makes possible this revisionary perspective on the idea of (Old) World literature.