Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Taking a comparative approach to literary studies, this series visits the relationship of literature and language alongside a variety of interdisciplinary and transnational topics. Titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Perpetrators’ Legacies: Post-imperial Condition in Sebald and McEwan
1st Edition
By Vladimir Biti
October 15, 2024
The book presents Winfried Georg Sebald and Ian McEwan as paradigmatic post-imperial writers who enmeshed in the hierarchies of power inherited from their imperial times, strive to disentangle themselves from that burdensome legacy. To achieve this, they undertake a subtle detachment from the ...
Modern Indian Literature as Cosmopolis: Conversations with Hanuman
1st Edition
By Didier Coste
October 09, 2024
This book redefines modern Indian literature from a cosmopolitan comparative perspective inclusive of literature in English from India and the diaspora, in native languages, and works by non-Indians. It shows how, since the mid-19th century, Indian literary modernity pursued the conjunction of the ...
Reclaiming Karbala: Nation, Islam and Literature of the Bengali Muslims
1st Edition
By Epsita Halder
October 09, 2024
Analysing an extensive range of texts and publications across multiple genres, formats and literary lineages, Reclaiming Karbala studies the emergence and formation of a viable Muslim identity in Bengal over the late-19th century through the 1940s. Beginning with an explanation of the tenets of the...
A Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism: Come Back Babar
1st Edition
By Andrew Nyongesa, John Mugubi
October 07, 2024
This book is response to the recent surge of formidable voices that consistently demean and attempt to reverse the gains of pan-Africanism. Besides questioning its relevance, these voices supplant essential tenets of pan-Africanism – Blackness, the narrative of Return, sanctity of the ancestral ...
A Cosmopolitan Approach to Literature: Against Origins and Destinations
1st Edition
By Didier Coste
August 26, 2024
This cross-disciplinary approach to literary reading of any provenance based on an “experimental cosmopolitan” epistemology de- and recontextualizes the texts from the points of view of multiple cultures and historical moments, enriching interpretation and aesthetic experience beyond the ...
The Myth and Identity of the Romantic Artist in European Literature: A Self-Constructed Fantasy
1st Edition
By Elena Anastasaki
May 27, 2024
This study addresses the question of artistic identity and the myth of the artist as it has been shaped by the artists themselves. While the term artist is to be understood in a broad sense, the focus of this study is the literature of the Romantic tradition. Identity is largely perceived as a ...
Women Writing Trauma in the Global South: A Study of Aminatta Forna, Isabel Allende and Anuradha Roy
1st Edition
By Annemarie Pabel
May 27, 2024
Through exploring complex suffering in the writings of Aminatta Forna, Isabel Allende and Anuradha Roy, Women Writing Trauma in the Global South dismantles conceptual shortcomings and problematic imbalances at the core of existing theorizations around psychological trauma. The global constellation ...
Transformative Fictions: World Literature and Personal Change
1st Edition
By Daniel Just
January 29, 2024
Transformative Fictions: World Literature and Personal Change engages with current debates in world literature over the past twenty years, addressing the nature of literary influence in centers and peripheries, the formation of transnational literary and pedagogical canons, and the role of ...
Mystic Modernity: Tagore and Yeats
1st Edition
By Ashim Dutta
September 25, 2023
This is a transnational and bilingual investigation of the cross-fertilisation of mystical religiosity and modern poetical imagination in the works of the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore and the Irish poet W. B. Yeats. The book demonstrates how their commitments to transnational mysticism deeply ...
Children of Globalization: Diasporic Coming-of-Age Novels in Germany, England, and the United States
1st Edition
By Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo
May 31, 2023
Children of Globalization is the first book-length exploration of contemporary Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels in the context of globalized and de facto multicultural societies. Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels subvert the horizon of expectations of the originating and archetypal form of the genre, ...
Family Fictions and World Making: Irish and Indian Women’s Writing in the Contemporary Era
1st Edition
By Sreya Chatterjee
May 31, 2023
Family Fictions and World Making: Irish and Indian Women’s Writing in the Contemporary Era is the first book-length comparative study of family novels from Ireland and India. On the one hand, despite an early as well as late colonial experience, Ireland is often viewed exclusively within a ...
Holocaust Narratives: Trauma, Memory and Identity Across Generations
1st Edition
By Thorsten Wilhelm
May 31, 2023
Holocaust Narratives: Trauma, Memory and Identity Across Generations analyzes individual multi-generational frameworks of Holocaust trauma to answer one essential question: How do these narratives change to not only transmit the trauma of the Holocaust – and in the process add meaning to what is ...