The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature by Anastasijevic, Silvia -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half-title Page Dedication Page New Horizons in Contemporary Writing Title Page Contents Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction: The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature – the mobilizing potential of transcultural World Literature

Foreword: On excentric proximity – some thoughts for Frank Part One Theories and concepts

‘Like-but-unlike’ Centre and edge References

2 Traversal, transversal: A poetics of migrancy

I II References

3 On transcultural globalectics: Ngũgĩ meets Schulze-Engler

Introduction Ngũgĩ’s earlier writings Towards transcultural globalectics Conclusion References

Part Two Transgressive kinships

Acknowledgement References

Theory, relationality and the voice(s) of memoir Transcultural life writing Emplotting the emergence of a diasporic subject Ongoing passages: Displacement, diaspora and the ‘Familiar Stranger’ ‘Conscripts of modernity’? The worlding of transcultural life writing References

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Introduction Teaching transculturality revisited Towards teaching a transcultural ecocriticism Conclusion Appendix: Student Questionnaire References

Part Three Transversal readings

Transculturality and redress: From literature to the courtroom A river with personhood and talking to whales References

10 The transcultural imaginary: South Asian writing from Aotearoa New Zealand

Sodden Downstream: Subjectivity and solidarity The Man Who Would Not See: Creating fictional worlds Conclusion: The transcultural imaginary References

11 Passages to India: Jewish exiles between privilege and persecution

Letters into the air Travelling texts: The envelopes Travelling objects: Hunting trophies and precious objects Colonial cosmopolitans Advocating British colonialism ‘Reichlich jüdisches Blut in den Adern’18 Das Schicksal eines ‘nichtzeitgemäßen’ Spitzenbeamten20 Retreat into the mountains The second passage to India Morning bridge and chocolate cake Krishna temples and Malabar dances ‘Berlin’s loss was Bombay’s gain’24 – Transculturality at last? References

Afterword: ‘Objects in the rear-view mirror’

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