Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Series Introduction – The Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamic: Conjunctions of World Literature Stefan Helgesson (Stockholm University, Sweden), Christina Kullberg (Uppsala University, Sweden), Paul Tenngart (Lund University, Sweden) and Helena Wulff (Stockholm University, Sweden) Introduction – Land, Language, Literature: Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Claims to Place Bo G. Ekelund (Stockholm University, Sweden) 1. One World Literature with Chinua Achebe and Flora Nwapa Paula Uimonen (Stockholm University, Sweden) 2. The Locations and Orientations of South African Literature: From Sol Plaatje to Peter Abrahams Ashleigh Harris (Uppsala University, Sweden) 3. Dislocation in Ahmad Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad and Hassan Blasim’s The Madman of Freedom Square Tasnim Qutait (Uppsala University, Sweden) 4. Locating the Literature of Hawai’i Sally Anderson Boström (Uppsala University, Sweden) 5. Sites of Solidarity and Circuits of Second World Reading: Ralph de Boissière’s Crown Jewel and the Locations of the Proletarian Novel Bo G. Ekelund (Stockholm University, Sweden) 6. Core: Ecologies of Muslim-American Writing Adnan Mahmutovic (Stockholm University, Sweden) 7. Locations, Orientations and Multiple Temporalities in the Contemporary, 'Global' Latin American Novel Jobst Welge (Leipzig University, Germany) 8. Ambiguous Arrival: Emotions and Dislocations in the Migrant Encounter with Sweden Helena Wulff (Stockholm University, Sweden) Afterword – At Home in the World Deborah Reed-Danahay (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA) Index

This dazzling collection of essays about world literature brings the vernacular into dialogue with the cosmopolitan. The value of this aim is now beyond dispute, what this book delivers is an account of how to do it.

The books in this series are available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and are available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. The four books in this limited series are an outcome of a major Swedish research project called “Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures,” the aim of which has been to intervene—not least methodologically—in the current disciplinary development of world literature studies. The series is united by a common introductory chapter and approaches the vernacular in world literature across a range of fields, such as comparative literature, postcolonial literature, and literary anthropology. More information on the research project can be found at www.worldlit.se