Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South scrutinizes current debates
to bring historical and contemporary South-South entanglements to the fore and to develop a new
understanding of world literature in a multipolar world of globalized modernity. The volume
challenges established ideas of world literature by rethinking the concept along the notion of
¿entanglements¿: as a field of variously criss-crossing relations of literary activity beyond
the confines of literary canons cultural containers or national borders. The collection
presents individual case studies from a variety of language traditions that focus on particular
literary relationships and practices across Africa the Americas Asia and Europe as well as
new fictional poetical and theoretical conceptions of world literature in order to broaden
our understanding of the multilateral entanglements within a widening communicative network
that shape our globalized world.
