Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Series Introduction - The Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamic: Conjunctions of World Literature
Helena Bodin (Stockholm University, Sweden), Stefan Helgesson (Stockholm University, Sweden), Christina Kulberg (Uppsala University, Sweden), Paul Tenngart (Lund University, Sweden), and Helena Wulff (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Introduction: Theorizing the Vernacular
Christina Kullberg and David Watson (Uppsala University, Sweden)
1. Contextualizing the Vernacular: Signposts from African Language, Writing, and Literature
Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California Davis, USA)
2. Vernacular Resistance: Catalan, Basque, and Galician Opposition to Francoist Monolingualism
Christian Claesson (Lund University, Sweden)
3. The Modern Adventures of Kanian Poongundranar, Classical Tamil Poet: Reflections on Literatures of the World, Vernacularly Speaking
S. Shankar (University of Hawai'i, USA)
4. Vernacular Soundings: Poetry from the Lesser Antilles in the Aftermaths of Hurricanes Irma and Maria
Christina Kullberg (Uppsala University, Sweden)
5. From Fesiten to Fesibuku: Shifting Priorities in the Saamaka Vernacular
Richard Price and Sally Price (College of William and Mary, USA)
6. Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in Modern Chinese Fiction and Lao She's Satirical Novel Cat Country
Lena Rydholm (Uppsala University, Sweden)
7. Worldly Themes and Vernacular Literature: Aino Kallas on Gender, Ethnicity, and Class
Katarina Leppänen (Gothenburg University, Sweden)
8. Specters of the Vernacular: Neoliberalism, World Literature, and Marlon James' A Brief History of Seven Killings
David Watson (Uppsala University, Sweden)
9. Vernacular Imagination and Exophone Reconfiguration in Francophone Chinese Diasporic Literature
Shuangyi Li (Lund University, Sweden)
Vernacular Lessons: Dante, Cavafy, Gombrowicz (Instead of an Afterword)
Galin Tihanov (Queen Mary University, UK)
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