This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Transcultural Literary Studies: Politics, Theory, and Literary Analysis" that was published in Humanities
Today's spectrum of research in literary studies is characterized by a sense of openness to the methods of comparative literature and cultural studies, along wi
In our globalised world, literature is less and less confined to national spaces. Europe-centred frameworks for literary studies have become insufficient; acade
What is most strikingly new about the transcultural is its sudden ubiquity. Following in the wake of previous concepts in cultural and literary studies such as
In recent decades, globalization has led to increased mobility and interconnectedness. For a growing number of people, contemporary life entails new local and t