Archiv orientální. East Asian and Southeast Asian Literature in the World Literary Space

This special issue of Archiv orientalni examines the ways of adressing the gap between the studies of East Asian or Southeast Asian literature and world literature studies, and attempts to throw light on the complex dimensions of  translation. Instead of focusing exclusively on the literary texts, individual articles explore the roles of multiple agents in transnational literary production and reception.  Our selection of essays features representatives of traditional (Ji Hao) and contemporary (Yu and Zhang) Chinese literature, literature from Hong Kong (Pan),  and Japanese literature (Dalmi; Serrano-Muñoz) – but also literature by authors  of Asian origin writing in non-native languages (Liew; Cheuk). Many of the authors adopted the perspective of sociology of literature and found the theory of the literary field articulated by Pierre Bourdieu particularly helpful when explaining the various processes  through  which  a  piece  of  national  literature  becomes  world  literature.