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A Kind of Testament: Reading Witold Gombrowicz as a Transnational Writer
Authors: Gasyna George 
Published: December 2019

AbstractWhen the Polish avant‐garde novelist and playwright Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) was departing, in August 1939, from the Baltic port of Gdynia on a two‐month state‐sponsored voyage to Buenos Aires and Rio as a cultural ambassador for the Polish interwar republic, not in his wildest dreams could he have imagined that his expatriation from Poland would be final or that his sojourn in Argentina would last 23 years, and that his subsequent home, back in Europe, would be first West Germany and then France. Throughout all this time, he continued to write in Polish while the themes of his text became, willy‐nilly, less local and more universal. This chapter attempts to think through Gombrowicz's work and life and posit him as a paradigmatic example of the transnational writer – a reluctant Argentinian, a classic expatriate European, and a rebellious Pole until the very end.
Language as Medium and as Fiction in Assia Djebar's Work
Authors: Tlatli Soraya 
Published: December 2019

AbstractA critical examination of the fundamental role played by languages in Assia Djebar's body of work and in contemporary Algeria. This chapter analyzes Assia Djebar's conception of language from her early novels, to later texts such asFantasia: An Algerian CavalcadeandAlgerian White. While trying to briefly locate her in world literature, it argues that language plays a fictional role in her writings. My main argument is that there is a striking evolution between her early conception and use of the French language, considered in its mimetic aspect, and her later consideration on language as elaborated inAlgerian White.
“England's Most Precious Gift”: Virginia Woolf's Transformations into Spanish
Authors: Rodríguez Laura María Lojo 
Published: December 2019

AbstractThis chapter focuses a world literary lens on the reception of Virginia Woolf's work in Spanish‐speaking countries. It looks into the process of translation, dissemination, critical assessment, and transformations of Virginia Woolf's work through a constellation of narratives produced in Woolf's wake. Departing from critical examination of the decisive role of Argentinean publisher Victoria Ocampo as disseminator of Woolf's oeuvre in Spanish, this chapter explores the complex interactions which the reception of Woolf's work entailed, ultimately unveiling how the process of assimilation and appropriation of her work is often conditioned by gender politics. Whereas male writers such as Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez saw in Woolf's work an inspiring conjunction of the marvelous real which would open the path to what later came to be known as magic realism, women writers, such as Ocampo herself, Montserrat Roig, and Carmen Martín Gaite were inspired by Woolf's feminist agenda, key in fostering a feminist awareness in South America and Spain.
Thomas Mann: National Monument and World Author
Authors: Horton David 
Published: December 2019

AbstractThis chapter reviews Thomas Mann's dual role as Germany's leading novelist of his age and highly visible public intellectual, tracing his rise to the status of national representative and world author in the grand Goethean tradition. The discussion outlines the eminently productive collaboration between the author, his American translator, and his US publisher, a concerted enterprise that succeeded in mediating Mann's works and ideas across cultural divides and established him as a best‐selling international author.
“Standing in a Doorway Looking”: Doris Lessing's Transnational Readings
Authors: Ridout Alice 
Published: December 2019

AbstractDoris Lessing's transnational life enabled her to write from a liminal position on the threshold of two different cultures – British and Rhodesian – and informed her development into a cosmopolitan thinker. This chapter explores the ways in which her work reflects David Damrosch's definition of “world literature” as “a mode of circulation and of reading.” Her metafictional interest in readers and reading, evident in bothThe Golden Notebook(1962) and her Nobel Lecture (2007), illuminates the ways in which the category of “world literature” draws critical attention to our reading strategies. Her work demonstrates a committed concern with scalar thinking which provides both a historical context for and provocative examples of the kind of “scale‐crossing” imagination that ecocriticism identifies as crucial for our contemporary moment and renders her work highly relevant to emergent literary criticism of world literature.
Abd al‐Rahman Munif: Tracing Alternative Stories East of the Mediterranean
Authors: Mejcher‐Atassi Sonja 
Published: December 2019

Abstract

One of the most acclaimed novelists and intellectuals in the Arab world, Abd al‐Rahman Munif's (ʿAbd al‐Raḥmān Munīf) literary legacy remains largely unread or misread in Western literary canons of world literature. Providing a survey of his major literary works, such as
Sharq al‐mutawassiṭ
(East of the Mediterranean),
Mudun al‐milḥ
(
Cities of Salt
), and ʿ
Arḍ al‐sawād
(Land of darkness/plenty), this chapter sets out to read Munif in a different light – not as the author of “the grand oil novel of the lands of the Gulf,” but as a writer deeply engaged in tracing alternative worlds east of the Mediterranean. It argues that Munif's literary production is grounded in the Arab world in both content and form yet carrying Arabic literature to new horizons, and worldly while challenging Western notions of world literature.
“It's Early to Rejoice”: Vladimir Mayakovsky's Revolutions
Authors: McGavran James H. 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
Vladimir Mayakovsky was a modernist poet, playwright, silent film scenarist, ad man, and self‐appointed Soviet propagandist. He first came to prominence as a leader of the Russian futurist movement, and later he was associated with such schools and movements as formalism, constructivism, and Lef (The Left Front of the Arts). Throughout his career he struggled to advance the cause of avant‐garde art and literature – to bring them to the masses and to establish them as reigning modes of cultural expression in Soviet Russia. His own work oscillated almost regularly between iconoclastic lyricism and revolutionary political zeal, but even his most strident propaganda is often bizarrely individualistic in its execution. He committed suicide in 1930 at the age of 36.
Bridge Essay: From Human Rights to Social Justice: Literature and the Struggle for a Better World
Authors: Caminero‐Santangelo Marta 
Published: December 2019

AbstractNarratives representing the abridgment of human rights, with the hope of provoking change, date back at least two centuries and include slave narratives as well as Latin Americantestimonio. But those same narratives which represent the most egregious human rights violations (slavery, genocide, state‐sponsored terror) also represent broad and deep social and economic inequities which lay the groundwork for horrible atrocities. A consideration of world literature of social justice includes attention to representations of poverty, racism, colonialism, segregation/apartheid, environmental injustice, and other forms of inequity which constitute ongoing and pervasive forms of trauma. A literature of social justice is a literature of human rights, including those social and economic rights which are often relegated to a status of lesser importance; it sees the connection between the violation of such rights and the more extreme examples of human rights atrocities, and it is concerned with promoting social change by stimulating changed attitudes in readers.
Transnational Voices of Resistance: Richard Wright and James Baldwin
Authors: Kilpeläinen Pekka A. 
Published: December 2019

AbstractDespite the international success of their early works, which focused more exclusively on the African American experience, both Richard Wright and James Baldwin moved on to adopt a transnational and transcultural point of view. Their later works are paramount in outlining the expanding focus of both writers. Wright's travel writings discuss the African diaspora, his ambivalent relation to Africa, and the memory of slavery. In addition to these, Baldwin's final works seek to transcend the boundaries of such identity categories as race, gender, nationality, and sexuality. Considering the profoundly transnational contents of the later writings of Wright and Baldwin, there is an urgent need to reassess them in the context of world literature to enable new readers around the globe to find access to these often ignored texts.
Mulk Raj Anand's World Literature: Humanism, Crowds, Caste, and Modernism
Authors: Elam J. Daniel 
Published: December 2019

AbstractMulk Raj Anand (1905–2004) was a South Asian novelist who wrote primarily in English. He was loosely affiliated with both the Bloomsbury Group in London and the All India Progressive Writers' Association in India. His most famous novel,Untouchable(1935), explores a day in the life of an untouchable (Dalit) boy. This chapter usesUntouchableto draw out the relationship between modernist sociological thought and literary production; the relationship between South Asian English and British English; and the politics of literature in South Asia.
The Educational and Social Worlds of Premodern Arabic Encyclopedism
Authors: Tuttle Kelly 
Published: December 2019

AbstractEnyclopedism is a widespread trend in premodern Arabic writing. Particularly during the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, the time of the Mamluk sultanate, anthologies and other types of compendia abound. Such compilations not only reflect the work‐life of the bureaucratic administrators during this time, but they also define the world in which they lived. Such broad works provide a means for authors to demonstrate their vast knowledge and social connections. In so doing, writers not only gained social status, but also provided materials from which ambitious students could learn and begin their own social climb.
Herodotus and His Readers: From Thucydides to the Present
Authors: Branscome David 
Published: December 2019

AbstractThe ancient Greek historian Herodotus is widely considered the founder of the genre of history. In theHistories, he was the first to construct a historical, prose narrative of a series of connected political and military events, specifically on the Persian Wars. The reception of Herodotus' historiographical achievement has been mixed, from his immediate successor Thucydides to modern scholars. Herodotus' pioneering contributions to the fields of history, ethnography, and geography have long been recognized, and his gifts as a writer, particularly as a crafter of entertaining stories, have been universally admired. At the same time, Thucydides has often been seen as the superior, more scientific historian, and ever since antiquity there have been questions about Herodotus' historical reliability. Much about what Herodotus is seeking to accomplish in his work, and even how he means for us to understand his authorial role, remains a mystery.
Opened Subjects, Opened Worlds: Rainer Maria Rilke, Vulnerability, and World‐Making
Authors: Eldridge Hannah Vandegrift 
Published: December 2019

Abstract

This chapter begins with a biographical sketch of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) and notes several ways in which his life and writing extend past national boundaries. It investigates what a world‐literary approach might change about understandings of Rilke's work and asks whether there are particular features of his writing that might prove illuminating for world literature. A reading of a passage from Rilke's novel
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
and of his Sonnet I.11 from the
Sonnets to Orpheus
both present those features and raise questions of their deployment in and use of literary language. The chapter closes by comparing two translations of the sonnet and considering both the possibilities and difficulties lyric poetry in particular poses for world‐literary reading, demonstrating that moving past a monolingual concept of the lyric need not involve neglecting formal and sonic texture.
Looks like a liar? Beliefs about native and non‐native speakers' deception
Authors: Leach Amy‐May , Da Silva Cayla S. , Connors Christina J. , Vrantsidis Michael R. T. , Meissner Christian A. , Kassin Saul M. 
Published: December 2019

SummaryWe examined whether observers' beliefs about deception were affected by a speaker's language proficiency. Laypersons (N = 105) and police officers (N = 75) indicated which nonverbal and verbal behaviors were predictive of native versus non‐native speakers' deception. In addition, they provided their beliefs about these speakers' interrogation experiences. Participants believed that native and non‐native speakers would exhibit the same cues to deception. However, they did predict that non‐native speakers would likely face several challenges during interrogations (e.g., longer interrogations and difficulties understanding the interrogator's questions). Police officers and laypersons also differed in their beliefs about cues to deception and interrogation experiences.
Comparing detailed and less detailed pre‐lineup instructions
Authors: Lampinen James Michael , Race Brittany , Wolf Alexander P. , Phillips Paulie , Moriarty Nathalie , Smith Andrew M. 
Published: December 2019

SummaryIt is generally agreed that proper pre‐lineup instructions can reduce the rate of mistaken identifications of innocent suspects. However, the exact nature of these instructions has not been empirically established. We compared the effects of the detailed pre‐lineup instructions recommended by the US Department of Justice to a simple instruction that the perpetrator may or may not be present. Both forms of unbiased instructions significantly reduced mistaken identifications when compared with biased instructions. Comparison of performance using the utility‐based analysis deviation from perfect performance demonstrated that unbiased instructions are to be preferred under assumptions of low base rates or high costs of mistaken identifications and do as well as biased instructions under assumptions of high base rates or low cost of misidentification.
A Highly Stretchable and Self‐Healing Supramolecular Elastomer Based on Sliding Crosslinks and Hydrogen Bonds
Authors: Du Ruichun , Xu Zhicheng , Zhu Cong , Jiang Yuanwen , Yan Hongping , Wu Hung‐Chin , Vardoulis Orestis , Cai Yifeng , Zhu Xiangyang , Bao Zhenan , Zhang Qiuhong , Jia Xudong 
Published: December 2019

AbstractThe long application life and stable performance of stretchable electronics have been putting forward requirements for both higher mechanical properties and better self‐healing ability of polymeric substrates. However, for self‐healing materials, simultaneously improving stretchability and robustness is still challenging. Here, by incorporating sliding crosslinker (polyrotaxanes) and hydrogen bonds into a polymer, a highly stretchable and self‐healable elastomer with good mechanical strength is achieved. The elastomer exhibits very high stretchability, such that it can be stretched to 2800% with a fracture strength of 1.05 MPa. Moreover, the elastomer can achieve nearly complete self‐healing (93%) at 55 °C. Next, tensile tests under different temperatures, step extension experiments, and in situ small angle X‐ray scattering confirm that the excellent stretchability is attributed to the combined effects of sliding cyclodextrins along guest chains and hydrogen bonds. Furthermore, a strain sensor by coating the single‐wall carbon nanotubes onto the surface of the elastic substrate is fabricated.
Interfacial Approach toward Benzene‐Bridged Polypyrrole Film–Based Micro‐Supercapacitors with Ultrahigh Volumetric Power Density
Authors: Jiang Kaiyue , Baburin Igor A. , Han Peng , Yang Chongqing , Fu Xiaobin , Yao Yefeng , Li Jiantong , Cánovas Enrique , Seifert Gotthard , Chen Jiesheng , Bonn Mischa , Feng Xinliang , Zhuang Xiaodong 
Published: December 2019

Abstract2D soft nanomaterials are an emerging research field due to their versatile chemical structures, easily tunable properties, and broad application potential. In this study, a benzene‐bridged polypyrrole film with a large area, up to a few square centimeters, is synthesized through an interfacial polymerization approach. As‐prepared semiconductive films exhibit a bandgap of ≈2 eV and a carrier mobility of ≈1.5 cm2 V−1 s−1, inferred from time‐resolved terahertz spectroscopy. The samples are employed to fabricate in‐plane micro‐supercapacitors (MSCs) by laser scribing and exhibit an ultrahigh areal capacitance of 0.95 mF cm−2, using 1‐ethyl‐3‐methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate ([EMIM][BF4]) as an electrolyte. Importantly, the maximum energy and power densities of the developed MSCs reach values up to 50.7 mWh cm−3 and 9.6 kW cm−3, respectively; the performance surpassing most of the 2D material‐based MSCs is reported to date.
Facile Anisotropic Deswelling Method for Realizing Large‐Area Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Uniform Structural Color and Broad‐Range Mechanochromic Response
Authors: Kizhakidathazhath Rijeesh , Geng Yong , Jampani Venkata Subba Rao , Charni Cyrine , Sharma Anshul , Lagerwall Jan P. F. 
Published: December 2019

AbstractCholesteric liquid crystal elastomers (CLCEs) are soft and dynamic photonic elements that couple the circularly polarized structural color from the cholesteric helix to the viscoelasticity of rubbers: the reflection color is mechanically tunable (mechanochromic response) over a broad range. This requires uniform helix orientation, previously realized by long‐term centrifugation to ensure anisotropic deswelling, or using sacrificial substrates or external fields. The present paper presents a simple, reproducible, and scalable method to fabricate highly elastic, large‐area, millimeters thick CLCE sheets with intense uniform reflection color that is repeatably, rapidly, and continuously tunable across the full visible spectrum by stretching or compressing. A precursor solution is poured onto a substrate and allowed to polymerize into a 3D network during solvent evaporation. Pinning to the substrate prevents in‐plane shrinkage, thereby realizing anisotropic deswelling in an unprecedentedly simple manner. Quantitative stress–strain–reflection wavelength characterization reveals behavior in line with theoretical predictions: two linear regimes are identified for strains below and above the helix unwinding threshold, respectively. Up to a doubling of the sample length, the continuous color variation across the full visible spectrum repeatedly follows a volume conserving function of the strain, allowing the CLCE to be used as optical high‐resolution strain sensor.
Bionic Detectors Based on Low‐Bandgap Inorganic Perovskite for Selective NIR‐I Photon Detection and Imaging
Authors: Cao Fei , Chen Jingde , Yu Dejian , Wang Shu , Xu Xiaobao , Liu Jiaxin , Han Zeyao , Huang Bo , Gu Yu , Choy Kwang Leong , Zeng Haibo 
Published: December 2019

AbstractFluorescence imaging with photodetectors (PDs) toward near‐infrared I (NIR‐I) photons (700–900 nm), the so‐called “optical window” in organisms, has provided an important path for tracing biological processes in vivo. With both excitation photons and fluorescence photons in this narrow range, a stringent requirement arises that the fluorescence signal should be efficiently differentiated for effective sensing, which cannot be fulfilled by common PDs with a broadband response such as Si‐based PDs. In this work, delicate optical microcavities are designed to develop a series of bionic PDs with selective response to NIR‐I photons, the merits of a narrowband response with a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of <50 nm, and tunability to cover the NIR‐I range are highlighted. Inorganic halide perovskite CsPb0.5Sn0.5I3 is chosen as the photoactive layer with comprehensive bandgap and film engineering. As a result, these bionic PDs offer a signal/noise ratio of ≈106, a large bandwidth of 543 kHz and an ultralow detection limit of 0.33 nW. Meanwhile, the peak responsivity (R) and detectivity (D*) reach up to 270 mA W−1 and 5.4 × 1014 Jones, respectively. Finally, proof‐of‐concept NIR‐I imaging using the PDs is demonstrated to show great promise in real‐life application.
Water‐Processable, Stretchable, Self‐Healable, Thermally Stable, and Transparent Ionic Conductors for Actuators and Sensors
Authors: Lee Junwoo , Tan Matthew Wei Ming , Parida Kaushik , Thangavel Gurunathan , Park Sang Ah , Park Taiho , Lee Pooi See 
Published: December 2019

AbstractFor emerging biocompatible, wearable, and stretchable epidermal electronic devices, it is essential to realize novel stretchable conductors with the attributes of transparency, low‐cost and nontoxic components, green‐solvent processbility, self‐healing, and thermal stabililty. Although conducting materials–rubber composites, ionic hydrogels, organogels have been developed, no stretchable material system that meets all the outlined requirements has been reported. Here, a series of P(SPMA‐r‐MMA) polymers with different ratios of ionic side chains is designed and synthesized, and it is demonstrated that the resulting stretchable ionic conductors with glycerol are transparent, water processable, self‐healable, and thermally stable due to the chemically linked ionic side chain, satisfying all of the aforementioned requirements. Among the series of polymer gels, the P(SPMA0.75‐r‐MMA0.25) gel shows optimum conductivity (6.7 × 10−4 S cm−1), stretchability (2636% of break at elongation), and self‐healing (98.3% in 3 h) properties. Accordingly, the transparent and self‐healable P(SPMA0.75‐r‐MMA0.25) gels are used to realize thermally robust actuators up to 100 °C and deformable and self‐healable thermal sensors.
Optical Antennas for Wavelength Division Multiplexing in Visible Light Communications beyond the Étendue Limit
Authors: Manousiadis Pavlos P. , Chun Hyunchae , Rajbhandari Sujan , Vithanage Dimali A. , Mulyawan Rahmat , Faulkner Grahame , Haas Harald , O'Brien Dominic C. , Collins Steve , Turnbull Graham A. , Samuel Ifor D. W. 
Published: December 2019

AbstractThis paper presents a novel fluorescent receiver for visible light communications that combines a broad field of view (FoV) with a significant gain, and simultaneously enables wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) for data communications. These characteristics are achieved by creating a receiver that includes a stack of two fluorescent optical antennas, each designed to receive a different part of the spectrum and create two separable communication channels. The device outperforms the theoretical étendue limit in terms of the combination of FoV and gain it can achieve. Furthermore, the demonstrated de‐multiplexing of blue and green spectral components enables the parallel streaming of data by WDM. Since these devices are inexpensive, simple, and compact, they can easily be integrated into portable electronic devices such as phones, tablets, and laptops.