Global Anglophone

This book addresses the rise of the concept of the "Global Anglophone" in contemporary literary studies, both as an intellectual category and as a field designation.

List of contents

Introductions The Rise of Global Anglophone The Global Anglophone: An Institutional Argument 1. Angloglobalism, Multilingualism and World Literature 2. Aspirations of Relationality: Asian American Studies, American Studies, East Asian Studies, and the Global Anglophone 3. Loose Canons: The Global Anglophone Novel and the Failures of Universalism 4. Area Studies: From "Global Anglophone" to Afropolitan Literature 5. Just Add Global 6. Of Global Anglophone: A Response

About the author

Anjuli I. Gunaratne is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Hong Kong.
Jeffrey Lawrence is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, where he teaches modern US and Latin American Literature. He is the author of Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño (2018).

Product details

• Authors: Anjuli I. Lawrence Gunaratne
• Assisted by: Anjuli I. Gunaratne (Editor), Lawrence Jeffrey (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.09.2025
• EAN: 9781041105473
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4110547-3
• No. of pages: 140
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, Sociolinguistics, Colonialism & imperialism, Literature & literary studies, Language: history & general works, Colonialism and imperialism, Bilingualism & multilingualism, FICTION / World Literature / England / General, Language: history and general works, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity