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[Rezension zu:] Apter, Emily S.: Against world literature. On the Politics of Untranslatability. - London [u.a.]: Verso 2013.

The contentious discourse around world literature tends to stress the 'world' in the phrase. This volume, in contrast, asks what it means to approach world literature by inflecting the question of the literary. Debates for, against, and around 'world literature' have brought renewed attention to the worldly aspects of the literary enterprise. Literature is studied with regard to its sociopolitical and cultural references, contexts and conditions of production, circulation, distribution, and translation. But what becomes of the literary when one speaks of world literature? Responding to Derek Attridge's theory of how literature 'works', the contributions in this volume explore in diverse ways and with attention to a variety of literary practices what it might mean to speak of 'the work of world literature'. The volume shows how attention to literariness complicates the ethical and political conundrums at the centre of debates about world literature. ; The Work of World Literature , ed. by Francesco Giusti and Benjamin Lewis Robinson, Cultural Inquiry, 19 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2021)

This open access book complicates and develops the notion of the vernacular. Understood in the linguistic sense as well as an element of the local, the vernacular facilitates the exploration of local and global dynamics. Through exploring the unexamined active role of the local, the indigenous, and the periphery in international literary exchanges, this volume argues that a coherent theorization of the vernacular will enable us to do so. The essays in Vernaculars in an Age of World Literatures present new critical approaches in the debate on world literature, which has given priority to cosmopolitan movements, global circulation of literatures, and metropolitan centers. In nine case studies, approaching narratives from the long 20th century from more or less marginal contexts-such as the Francophone Chinese diaspora, multilingual regions in Spain, West Africa, and the Caribbean-the volume offers theoretical and methodological ways of putting the concept of the vernacular in practice and demonstrates how vernaculars operate within different literary, critical, cultural, and political circumstances. The open access edition of this book is available under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

The category of world literature has come to play a major role in debates over the future of comparative literature. Its history is traced from J. W. Goethes use of the German term Weltliteratur in 1827, through Immanuel Wallerstein in his 1970s development of world-systems theory & world-economy, to Fernand Braudel's study on the 16th-century Mediterranean economie-monde. For Wallerstein, the word world in these phrases is a noun in apposition to the other noun, systems or economy, rather than an adjective, with the hyphen marking the distinction. Most writers on world literature, or world-literature, consider this literature not as the sum total of the worlds literary production, but rather, as Wallerstein did, as a world-system with which literature is written & read. This paper examines these models of world-literature & writing along with those of Pascale Casanova & Franco Moretti, leading to a discussion of six modes of writing. S. Stanton