Claiming Space: Locations and Orientations in World Literatures

Cover\nContents\nNotes on contributors\nAcknowledgements\nSeries introduction – The cosmopolitan–vernacular dynamic: Conjunctions of world literature Stefan Helgesson, Christina Kullberg, Paul Tenngart and Helena Wulff\nIntroduction – Land, language, literature: Cosmopolitan and vernacular claims to place Bo G. Ekelund\n1 One world literature with Chinua Achebe and Flora Nwapa Paula Uimonen\n2 The locations and orientations of South African literature: From Sol Plaatje to Peter Abrahams Ashleigh Harris\n3 Dislocation in Ahmad Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad and Hassan Blasim’s The Madman of Freedom Square Tasnim Qutait\n4 Locating the literature of Hawai‘i Sally Anderson Boström\n5 Sites of solidarity and circuits of Second World reading: Ralph de Boissière’s Crown Jewel and the locations of the proletarian novel Bo G. Ekelund\n6 Core: Ecologies of Muslim-American writing Adnan Mahmutović\n7 Locations, orientations and multiple temporalities in the contemporary, ‘global’ Latin American novel Jobst Welge\n8 Ambiguous arrival: Emotions and dislocations in the migrant encounter with Sweden Helena Wulff\nAfterword – At home in the world Deborah Reed-Danahay\nIndex