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What is the contemporary status of a perceived "European" identity? This book addresses the complex negotiations around the lingering shadow of Eurocentrism, now increasingly challenged by intra-European crises and by the emergence of autonomously non-European perceptions of Europe.
About the author
Vladimir Biti is Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna, currently Distinguished Chair Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University. His most recent monograph is
Attached to Dispossession, (Brill, 2018). Upcoming:
Post-imperial Literature: Translatio imperii
in Kafka and Coetzee. Joep Leerssen is Professor of Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam and holds a part-time research professorship at the University of Maastricht. He is the editor of the
Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe(Amsterdam UP, 2018). His most recent books are
Comparative Literature in Britain: National Identities, Transnational Dynamics, 1800-2000 (Legenda 2019) and
Parnell and his Times (ed.; Cambridge UP, 2020).
Vivian Liska is Professor of German at the University of Antwerp, Belgium as well as Distinguished Visiting Professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has published extensively on German Modernism and Literary Theory. Her most recent book publication is titled
German-Jewish Thought and its Afterlife. A Tenuous Legacy (Indiana UP, 2017).
