This volume clarifies the meanings and applications of the concept of the transnational and identifies areas in which the concept can be particularly useful. Th

Transnational Literature: The Basics provides an indispensable overview of this important new field of study and the literature it explores. It concisely descri

As the pace of cultural globalization accelerates, the discipline of literary studies is undergoing dramatic transformation. Scholars and critics focus increasi

This book provides a new map of American literature in the global era, analyzing the multiple meanings of transnationalism.

Goethe in 1827 famously claimed that national literatures did not mean very much anymore, and that the epoch of world literature was at hand. Since the turn of