Constructing Transnational Identities: The Spatial Turn in Contemporary Literary Historiography
Keywords:
literary history, national literary studies, cultural identity, spatial turn, discontinuity, determinismAbstract
The article approaches several transnational contemporary literary histories in order to critically evaluate the efficiency of “the spatial turn in literary historiography”. Although it acknowledges the benefits of this phenomenon as a tool to deconstruct the narrow national criterion and the obsolete teleological model, it also signals the risk that the programmatic quest for (spatial) discontinuity ultimately affects the very coherence of historical knowledge.References
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