Transnational Literature

This collection takes a dynamic approach to the study of literatures from around the globe. Moving away from the idea of national literatures, it investigates literature as a site of contact and friction between languages, ideas, practices, literary institutions, authors, readers and markets. 

Committed to building up an archive on transnational literatures, the collection features research on a wide range of issues, such as language switching, translingualism, translation (as a form of mediation), digital literatures and digital authorship. It also welcomes research on transnational literary networks, transnational literary history and decolonizing literary history; citizenship and migration; post/colonial literature; historical perspectives on transnationalism; marketing practices; literary production and reception in the digital era.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• Language switching, translingualism, multilingualism and translation
• Literary production and reception
• Modes of transfer and transnational networks
• Transnational intertextuality and intermediality
• Digital literatures, digital authorship and marketing practices
• Transnational literary history
• Defining transnational literature
• Identity, ethnicity, gender in transnational literature
• Citizenship, democracy, and literature in transnational literature
• Migration, mobility in transnational literature
• Historical perspectives on transnational literatures
• Literary theory and cultural criticism in transnational literature
• Travel writing in transnational literature
• Environmental humanities in transnational literature
• Posthumanities/posthumanism, transhumanism, robotics and AI in
  transnational literature