Transnational Literature

<p><em>Transnational Literature: The Basics</em> provides an indispensable overview of this important new field of study and the literature it explores. It concisely describes the various ways in which literature can be understood as being transnational explains why scholars in literary studies have become so interested in the topic and discusses the economic political social and cultural forces that have shaped its development. </p><p>The book explores a range of contemporary critical approaches to the subject highlighting how topics like globalization cosmopolitanism diaspora history identity migration and decolonization are treated by both scholars in the field and the writers they study. The literary works discussed range across the globe and include fiction poetry and drama by writers including Jhumpa Lahiri Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Jenny Erpenbeck Aleksandar Hemon Viet Thanh Nguyen Derek Walcott Louise Bennett Xiaolu Guo Sally Wen Mao Wole Soyinka and many more. This survey stresses the range and breadth—but also the intersecting interests—of transnational writing engaging the variety of subjects it covers and emphasizing the range of literary devices (linguistic formal narrative poetic and dramatic) it employs.</p><p>Highlighting the subjects and issues that have become central to fiction in the age of globalization <i>Transnational Literature: The Basics </i>is an essential read for anyone approaching study of this vibrant area. </p>