East and South - Mapping Other Europes

What is "Europe" in academic discourse?

While Europe tends to be used as shorthand, often interchangeable with the "West", neither the "West" nor "Europe" are homogeneous spaces. Though postcolonial studies have long been debunking Eurocentrism in its multiple guises, there is still work to do in fully comprehending how its imaginations and discursive legacies conceive the figure of Europe, as not all who live on European soil are understood as equally "European".

This volume explores this immediate need to rethink the axis of postcolonial cultural productions, to disarticulate Eurocentrism, to recognise Europe as a more diverse, plural and fluid space, to draw forward cultural exchanges and dialogues within the Global South. Through analyses of literary texts from East-Central Europe and beyond, this volume sheds light on alternative literary cartographies - the multiplicity of Europes and being European
which exist both as they are viewed from the different geographies of the global South, and within the continent itself.

Covering a wide spatial and temporal terrain in postcolonial and European cultural productions, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature and literary criticism, cultural studies, post-colonial studies, global South studies and European studies.

List of contents

1. On Europe and Mapping 2. On World Literature and World Literature Studies 3. Moving Centres: Mapping Networkedness from Europe's Peripheries 4. Moving Centres: Reading Migrationally, a Prague Text 5. Shifting Axes: Towards Eurasia and Eurasiachronologies 6. Looking Forward: On Europeanness and Eurasia as Method

About the author

Lucy Gasser is Lecturer in Anglophone Literatures at the University of Potsdam, Germany.

Summary

This volume explores this immediate need to rethink the axis of postcolonial cultural productions, to disarticulate Eurocentrism, to recognise Europe as a more diverse, plural and fluid space, to draw forward cultural exchanges and dialogues within the Global South.

Product details

• Authors: Lucy Gasser, Lucy (University of Potsdam Gasser
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9780367772710
• ISBN: 978-0-367-77271-0
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: Transdisciplinary Souths
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Europe, Cultural Studies, Asia, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: postcolonial literature