European & World Literature

Irony and Avowal in a Post-Truth Age

Brian Tucker, Wabash College, USA Contemporary alarm over unreliability, falsehood, and indifference to truth has made it easier to perceive in Fontane’s novels a profound concern about language that is not sincere and not meant to be taken literally. For Fontane, irony exemplifies a discrepancy between language and meaning, a loosening of the ethical bond between words and the things to which they refer Tucker’s analyses reveal a critical distance between his works and the prospect of irony as a dominant idiom Revisiting Fontane’s novels in a post-truth age brings the conflict between irony and avowal into sharper relief and makes legible the stakes and contours of our own post-truth condition

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 264 pages PB 9781501368394 • £2899 / $3995 Previously published in HB 9781501368356 ePub 9781501368363 • £7934 / $10800 ePdf 9781501368370 • £7934 / $10800 Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing

Literature, Philosophy, and the Nigerian World

Nimi Wariboko, Boston University, USA The first book to interrogate the ethics of governance and development in postcolonial Africa through rigorous philosophical, literary and artistic discourse, this study takes literature seriously as a context for philosophical reflection. Anchored in political and social ethics and close readings of literary and artistic works – such as A Igoni Barrett’s Blackass and the comedy skits of MC Edo Pikin – this is a landmark contribution to Nigerian cultural studies Wariboko’s practical engagement between literature and philosophy also opens up new ways of seeing literary analysis as ethical methodology, beyond the specific contexts of Nigeria or Africa

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 192 pages PB 9781501398070 • £1999 / $2695 • HB 9781501398087 • £6500 / $9000 ePub 9781501398094 • £1819 / $2425 ePdf 9781501398100 • £1819 / $2425 Series: Black Literary and Cultural Expressions • Bloomsbury Academic

Taiwanese Literature as World Literature

Edited by Pei-yin Lin, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong & Wen-chi Li, University of Zurich, Switzerland Owing to Taiwan’s multi-ethnic nature and colonial past, Taiwanese literature is naturally multilingual It can be analyzed in the frameworks of Japanophone and Chinese literature, but only by viewing Taiwanese literature as world literature can we redress limitations of national identity and fully examine writers’ transculturation practice and their globally minded vision Bringing together scholars from Europe, North America, and East Asia, the volume stimulates new ways of conceptualizing Taiwanese literature, demonstrating cases of Taiwanese authors’ co-option of world trends in their Taiwan-concerned writing, and exploring its readership and circulation

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 272 pages HB 9781501381348 • £9000 / $12000 ePub 9781501381355 • £7934 / $10800 ePdf 9781501381362 • £7934 / $10800 Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

Cervantes, the Golden Age, and the Battle for Cultural Identity in 20th-Century Spain

Ana María G. Laguna, Rutgers UniversityCamden, USA This book recuperates the thriving, humanistic vision of the Golden Age celebrated by Spanish progressive thinkers, writers, and artists in the decades prior to 1939 and the Francoist Regime The life and literary opus of Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) acquires new significance when exploring the complex understanding of this moment of modernity, given his influence on the poetic and political endeavors of Spanish left-wing reformists By recovering their progressive dream, buried for almost a century, the author casts doubt on the idea of a persistent conservatism in Golden Age literature

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 256 pages PB 9781501374913 • £2899 / $3995 Previously published in HB 9781501374920 ePub 9781501374937 • £7934 / $10800 ePdf 9781501374944 • £7934 / $10800 Bloomsbury Academic

Literatures as World Literature

Thomas Oliver Beebee, Penn State University, USA

Polish Literature as World Literature

Edited by Piotr Florczyk, University of Washington, USA & K. A. Wisniewski, American Antiquarian Society, USA These 15 chapters by leading scholars from the United States, the Netherlands, Canada, Italy, and Poland offer a panoramic view of Polish authors and their contributions to world literature The volume shows how authors, from Jan Kochanowski in the 16th century to 2018 Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk, have engaged with their foreign counterparts and the global literary network It also sheds light on the idea of Polishness and global phenomena, like social and economic advancement and ecological degradation The picture of Polish literature that emerges is that of a cosmopolitan cohort engaged in a mutually rewarding relationship with the world republic of letters

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 256 pages HB 9781501387104 • £9000 / $12000 ePub 9781501387111 • £7934 / $10800 ePdf 9781501387128 • £7934 / $10800 Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

Persian Literature as World Literature

Edited by Mostafa Abedinifard, University of British Columbia, Canada, Omid Azadibougar, Hunan Normal University, China & Amirhossein Vafa, Shiraz University, Iran Confronting nationalistic and nativist interpretations in Persianate literary scholarship, this volume makes a case for reading these literatures as world literature—as transnational texts that expand beyond local and national penchants Working through an idea of world literature that is both cosmopolitan and critical of any monologic view on globalization, contributors revisit the early and contemporary circulation of Persianate literatures across neighboring and distant cultures, and seek to engage in constructive dialogues with the global forces surrounding, and shaping, Persianate societies and cultures

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 272 pages PB 9781501374548 • £2899 / $3995 Previously published in HB 9781501354229 ePub 9781501354212 • £7934 / $10800 ePdf 9781501354205 • £7934 / $10800 Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic