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Sounding the Break: African American and Caribbean Routes of World Literature (New World Studies)
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Paperback. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 274.
The idea of ""world literature"" has served as a crucial though underappreciated interlocutor for African diasporic writers, informing their involvement in processes of circulation, translation, and revision that have been identified as the hallmarks of the contemporary era of world literature. Yet in spite of their participation in world systems before and after European hegemony, Africa and the African diaspora have been excluded from the networks and archives of world literature.
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. ... Read more
The idea of ""world literature"" has served as a crucial though underappreciated interlocutor for African diasporic writers, informing their involvement in processes of circulation, translation, and revision that have been identified as the hallmarks of the contemporary era of world literature. Yet in spite of their participation in world systems before and after European hegemony, Africa and the African diaspora have been excluded from the networks and archives of world literature.
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
New World Studies
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813935737
SKU
V9780813935737
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Jason Frydman is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Caribbean Studies Program at Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA.
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