Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South

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.



Andrea Gremels is a researcher and lecturer of Francophone and Hispanic Literatures and Cultures at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Goethe University Frankfurt. She has published widely on Caribbean and Latin American literature, film, and other media, transcultural studies, postcolonial theory, and international surrealism. She is Executive Board member of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism (ISSS) and a former Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Paris and Berlin.







Maren Scheurer is a researcher and lecturer at the Department for Comparative Literature at Goethe University Frankfurt. She is author of Transferences: The Aesthetics and Poetics of the Therapeutic Relationship, and she has published essays on psychoanalysis, literature, and other media as well as late-nineteenth-century transformations of realism in a wide range of journals and edited collections. With Aimee Pozorski, she serves as executive co-editor of Philip Roth Studies.







Frank Schulze-Engler is professor of New Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the Institute of English and American Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. He has published widely on African, Asian, and indigenous literature and culture, postcolonial theory, and transculturality in a world of globalized modernity. He was joint project leader of “Africa’s Asian Options” (AFRASO) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. He serves as co-editor of Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society.







Jarula M. I. Wegner is Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Frankfurt and co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Memory Studies Group at the Frankfurt Humanities Research Centre. He holds degrees in Chinese, German, and English with a doctoral thesis on “Transcultural Memory Constellations in Caribbean Carnivals”. He has been Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, the University of Warwick, and the University of the West Indies.