World-Literary System and the Atlantic

<p>The World-Literary System and the Atlantic grapples with key questions about how American studies and the Atlantic region in general engages with new considerations of literary comparativism international literary space and the world-literary system.</p><p>The edited collection furthers these discussions by placing them into a relationship with the theory of combined and uneven development – a theory that has a long pedigree in Marxist sociology and political economy and that continues to stimulate debate across the social sciences but whose implications for culture have received less attention. Drawing on the comparative modes concepts and methods being developed in the new world-literary studies the essays cover a diverse range of topics such as the periodization of world literature racism and the world-system singular modernity critical irrealism commodity frontiers semi-peripherality and world-ecology. </p><p>The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal <i>Atlantic Studies.</i></p>