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Oceanic comparativism and world literature
Ganguly, Debjani
Ganguly, Debjani
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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.
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oceans, terraqueous transregionalism, literary flows, Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean
Date
2021
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The Cambridge history of world literature ; volume 1
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429-457
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Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
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