World-Literary System and the Atlantic

Sorcha Gunne is researcher at the Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo, Norway. Her current project investigates the intersection of world literature and social reproduction feminism. Previous books include Space, Place and Gender Violence in South African Writing (2015) and Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives (2010).Neil Lazarus is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. Previous books include Combined and Uneven Development: Towards A New Theory of World Literature (2015), The Postcolonial Unconscious (2011), Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies (2004), Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies (2002), Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World (1999) and Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction (1990).

• Introduction: The world-literary system and the AtlanticNeil Lazarus and Sorcha Gunne1. The world-literary system and the Atlantic: Combined and uneven development – an interview with Stephen ShapiroNeil Lazarus2. Three early modern genres: A microhistorical approach to "world literature"William Boelhower3. Contesting slavery in the global market: John Brown’s Slave Life in GeorgiaMichael J. Drexler and Stephanie Scherer4. On transnational analogy: Thinking race and caste with W. E. B. Du Bois and Rabindranath TagoreYogita Goyal5. "Time’s carcase": Waste, labour, and finance capital in the Atlantic world-ecology Michael Niblett6. From the Novela de la Caña to Junot Díaz's "cake-eater": World-literature, the world-food-system and the Dominican Republic Kerstin Oloff7. Water shocks: Neoliberal hydrofiction and the crisis of "cheap water"Sharae Deckard8. From fishery limits to limits to capital: Gendered appropriation and spectres of North Atlantic fishery collapse in The Silver Darlings and Sylvanus NowMichael Paye9. Feminist politics and semiperipheral poetics: Eavan Boland and Aislinn Hunter Sorcha Gunne