This essay offers a meditation on Marlene van Niekerk’s 2004 novel Agaat as an encyclopedic (or, more exactly, counter-encyclopedic) narrative, defined – controversially by Edward Mendelson in influential 1976 polemic. It emphasizes Agaat’s historic specificity postapartheid par excellence: one that does not instigate, but rather annuls ethnic-national culture. In other words it considers the w...

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This book stems from the author’s exploration of encounter between Iran and modernity. preoccupation takes shape here through examination Sadegh Hedayat’s texts in their variety complexity. Azadibougar analyses poetics modernity his response to own peripheral condition world literature. The a strong stance against tragic-romantic approach focus on life many scholarly that studied this influenti...

This article presents a critical examination of “transborder” literary approaches that seek to renegotiate the position Japanese fiction within world. The concept transborder has emerged in recent decades as means breaking down boundaries literature assume agreement between nationality writer and language her text. However, it takes its cues from David Damrosch’s influential study 2003, What is...