Literature and the Global Contemporary

Far from suggesting that we replace theories of an omnipresent 'end of history' with a traditional, single, diachronic timeline, this book encourages the development of such a timeline's rigorous inverse: a synchronic, multi-faceted and multi-temporal history of the contemporary in literature, and thus of contemporary global literatures.

Departe de a sugera ca inlocuim teoriile unui „sfarsit al istoriei” omniprezent cu o cronologie traditionala, unica, diacronica, aceasta carte incurajeaza dezvoltarea inversului riguros al unei astfel de cronologii: o istorie sincronica, cu mai multe fatete si cu mai multe timpuri a contemporanului in literatura si deci a literaturilor globale contemporane.