TransArea: A Literary History of Globalization

by Ottmar Ette, Mark W. Person (Translator)

Overview

Ottmar Ette’s TransArea proceeds from the thesis that globalization is not a recent phenomenon, but rather, a process of long duration that may be divided into four main phases of accelerated globalization. These phases connect our present, across the world’s widely divergent modern eras, to the period of early modern history. Ette demonstrates how the literatures of the world make possible a tangible perception of that which constitutes Life, both of our planet and on our planet, which may only be understood through the application of multiple logics. There is no substitute for the knowledge of literature: it is the knowledge of life, from life. This English translation will be of great interest to English-speaking scholars in the fields of Global and Area Studies, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, History, Political Science, and many more.

About the author

Ottmar Ette has been Chair of Romance Literature at the University of Potsdam, Germany, since 1995. He is Honorary Member of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) (elected in 2014), member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (elected in 2013), and regular member of the Academia Europaea (since 2010).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110477795
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	07/11/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	364
File size:	11 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Ottmar Ette, Potsdam University, Germany.

Table of Contents

Compass Rose of Concepts: Globalization, Vectorizations, Literatures of the World: Transareal Studies 1

Globalization I In the Grid Network of the Occident: Treasure and Trap, Plenty and Pitfall of the European Projection of World-Wide Migratory Spaces 56

Globalization II Dispute over the World: Discourses of the Tropics and the Tropes of the Discourses on World-wide Expansion 111

Globalization III Influence of a New World Power: From the Abundance of Absence to the Pitfall of Power 169

Globalization IV In the Net of Transarchipelagic Connections: On the Plenty of Polyperspective and the Pitfall of Monolingual Globalization 232

Bibliography 335

Index 353

Editorial Reviews

"For those looking for an expansive yet meticulous resource on the literature of globalization, including diverse German sources addressing global connections, this is a timely and indispensable resource."
Caroline Schaumann in: German Studies Review 41.2 (2018), 383-384

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