Cambridge Studies in World Literature

World literature is a vital part of twenty-first century critical studies. Globalization, and unprecedented levels of connectivity through communication technologies, force literary scholars to rethink the scale of literary production, and their own critical practices. As an exciting field that engages seriously with the place and function of literary studies in our global era, the study of world literature requires new approaches. Cambridge Studies in World Literature, a new monograph series, is founded on the assumption that world literature is not all literatures of the world nor a canonical set of globally successful literary works. The series will highlight scholarship on literary works that focus on the logics of circulation drawn from multiple literary cultures and technologies of the textual. While not rejecting the nation as a site of analysis, the series will offer insights into new cartographies - the hemispheric, the oceanic, the transregional, the archipelagic, the multi-lingual local - that better reflect the multi-scalar and spatially dispersed nature of literary production. It will highlight the creative co-existence, flashpoints and intersections of language worlds from both the Global South and the Global North, and multi-world models of literary production and literary criticism that these have generated. It will push against existing historical, methodological and cartographic boundaries, and showcase humanistic and literary endeavors in the face of world scale environmental and humanitarian catastrophes.

General Editors: Debjani Ganguly, University of Virginia; Francesca Orsini, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London