The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature

A polemical intervention in the studies of world literature from the vantage point of Chinese-Sinophone literatures.

In The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature, Kuei-fen Chiu and Yingjin Zhang aim to bridge the distance between the scholarship of world literature and that of Chinese and Sinophone literary studies. This edited volume advances research on world literature by bringing in new developments in Sinophone literature and adds a much-needed new global perspective on Chinese literary studies beyond the traditional national literature paradigm and its recent critique by Sinophone studies. In addition to a critical mapping of the respective domains of world literature, Sinophone literature, and world literature in Chinese, the book also addresses the issues of translation, genre, and the impact of media and technology on contemporary understandings of "literature" and "literary prestige." The issues taken up by the contributors to this volume promise fruitful polemical interventions in the studies of world literature from the vantage point of Chinese and Sinophone literatures.