Oceanic comparativism and world literature

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Ganguly, Debjani. (2021). Oceanic comparativism and world literature. In In Ganguly, Debjani (Ed.). The Cambridge history of world literature ; volume 1 pp. 429-457 Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009064446.024

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Authors	Ganguly, Debjani
Editors	Ganguly, Debjani
Abstract	If world literature is conceived as a network of transregional, multi-local and transnational nodes stretching back to antiquity, oceanic worlds can be seen to offer a generative frame for literary history. The world’s oceans gird the shores of cities, nations, islands and continents. They generate contact zones that are multilingual, demographically mixed, economically varied and culturally hybrid. Further, much like world literature, the historicity of the oceans can scarcely be contained within the temporality of transatlantic capitalism from the eighteenth century to the present. This chapter explores literary works across several oceanic zones and offers oceanic comparativism as a rich cartographic frame for world literature.
Keywords	oceans; terraqueous transregionalism; literary flows; Indian Ocean; Atlantic Ocean
Page range	429-457
Year	2021
Book title	The Cambridge history of world literature ; volume 1
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Place of publication	New York, New York
	Port Melbourne, Victoria
	New Delhi, India
	Singapore, Singapore
ISBN	9781009064446
	9781108493581
	9781108557269
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009064446.024
Publisher's version	License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled
Output status	Published
Online	17 Aug 2021
Print	2021
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