World Literature / Asian Literature

Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature

Edited by James Hodapp, Northwestern University, Qatar Building upon the little extant scholarship on graphic narratives from the Global South, this collection moves beyond a Western approach to this quickly expanding field. By focussing on graphic novels and comics from the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia, these essays expand the study of graphic narratives to a global scale. Contributors also explore how these graphic texts engage with, fit in with or complicate notions of World Literature, such as translation, commodification, circulation and Orientalism. The larger theoretical framework of World Literature is joined with the postcolonial, decolonial, Global South and similar approaches that argue explicitly or implicitly for the viability of non-Western graphic narratives on their own terms.

UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 272 pages • 64 bw illus HB 9781501373411 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501373428 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501373435 • £83.60 / $108.00 Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

Philosophy as World Literature

Edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston-Victoria, USA What does it mean for philosophy to be considered as a species of not just literature but world literature? The essays in this collection offer a complex and authoritative account of philosophy as world literature by exploring philosophy through the lens of the "worlding" of literature—that is, considering the ways in which philosophy is connected and reconnected through global literary networks that cross borders, mix stories, and speak in translation and dialect. Philosophy as World Literature offers a variety of accounts of the ways in which the "worlding" of literature problematizes the national categorizing of philosophy and brings new meanings and challenges to the traditional topic of intersections between philosophy and literature.

UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 304 pages PB 9781501370717 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501351877 ePub 9781501351884 • £90.50 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501351891 • £90.50 / $117.00 Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

Science Fiction in India

Parallel Worlds and Postcolonial Paradigms

Edited by Shweta Khilnani, University of Delhi & Ritwick Bhattacharjee This volume examines the different ways by which Indian SF narratives construct possible national futures. It explores how the tensions generated by the seemingly conflicting forces of tradition and modernity within the Indian historical landscape are realized through characteristic tropes of SF storytelling. It looks at the interplay between the spatiotemporal coordinates of the nation and the SF narratives produced within to see how one bears upon the other and how processes of governance find relational structures with such narratives.

Bulgarian Literature as World Literature

Edited by Mihaela P. Harper, Bilkent University, Turkey & Dimitar Kambourov, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland This book examines key aspects and manifestations of 20th- and 21st-century Bulgarian literature vis-àvis the global literary landscape. The first volume to bring together in English the perspectives of prominent writers, translators, and scholars of Bulgarian literature and culture, this long-overdue collection identifies correlations between national and world aesthetic ideologies and literary traditions. Mapping histories, geographies, economies, and genetics, the volume’s contributors assess the magnitudes and directions of such forces in order to articulate how a distinctly national, “minor” literature transforms into world literature today.

UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 304 pages PB 9781501369780 • £34.99 / $47.95 Previously published in HB 9781501348105 ePub 9781501348112 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501348129 • £83.60 / $108.00 Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

Haruki Murakami and the Search for Self-Therapy

Stories from the Second Basement

Jonathan Dil, Keio University, Japan Haruki Murakami has said that he started writing novels as a means of self-therapy; this book explores Murakami’s fourteen published novels as an evolving therapeutic project. It starts by looking into the biographical factors behind this therapeutic project, beginning with Murakami’s estrangement from his father and the death of a former girlfriend. Jonathan Dil argues that these two ‘traumas’ in Murakami’s life are essential for understanding why he writes, before going on to successfully reason that Murakami’s fiction has transcended these proximate motivations to deal with the theme of therapy on a much broader, cultural level.

UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 272 pages HB 9781350270541 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350270565 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350270558 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan • Bloomsbury Academic

Voices of Angel Island

Inscriptions and Immigrant Poetry, 19101945

Charles Egan, San Francisco State University, USA This anthology of the writings of immigrants detained at Angel Island serves as a conduit for readers today to connect with the early-20thcentury perspectives on the process of “becoming American.” The Angel Island barracks contain an extraordinary archive: hundreds of poems and prose records in half a dozen languages on the walls, inscribed by immigrant detainees between 1910 and 1940, and by POWs and “enemy aliens” during World War II. Charles Egan draws on over a decade's work deciphering the wall inscriptions to assemble a selection of writings in this book, alongside literary materials from Bay Area ethnic newspapers.

UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 320 pages HB 9789354353383 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9789354353437 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9789354351693 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic India World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent) UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 360 pages • 60 bw illus PB 9781501371295 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501360459 ePub 9781501360466 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501360473 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic