CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENTS IN EMERGENT LITERATURES AND THE NEW EUROPE

Contemporary Developments in Emergent Literatures and the New Europeseeks to explore changing conceptions of European identity, and thepossible ways in which we can speak of a N/new Europe, in the contextof a discussion of the concept of literary emergence. It gathers agroup of both established and early career researchers, from diverseparts of Europe, US and South Africa, whose readings of literary texts describe a range of deterritorialized, hybrid, and heterogeneousidentities. Tracing paths from the West of Ireland to Albania, fromLondon to Mecca and Argentina, the essays collected here reveal aEurope that is porous and multiethnic, a Europe of the mind whosespatial co-ordinates exceed national boundaries and divisions. Thisvolume provokes us to reassess our conceptions of the Old Europe, todraw from the new voices we hear in its pages a new landscape, or apalimpsestic overlaying of distinct maps.