Post National Worlds in Contemporary European Literature is a groundbreaking and indispensable work for anyone interested in how today's literary landscapes reimagine the ideas of nation and globalization-actively reshaping what Europe means, for whom, and in which voices. Jesse van Amelsvoort demonstrates that literature-across languages and borders-continues to be a vital space for negotiating identities and belonging, and for envisioning new communities and connections. By weaving together minority studies, world literature, and European studies, this book reveals how post-national literary scenarios emerge not in spite of Europe's linguistic and cultural fractures but through them, and are compelling reconfigurations of the European project itself. This is world literature grounded in lived multiplicity-rooted, relational, and politically urgent. A timely and necessary intervention.

Nicoletta Pireddu, Georgetown University, USA

Written with clarity and verve, Post-National Worlds in Contemporary European Literature brings us closer to an actual Europe of today. By reading works in multiple languages from Finland, Spain, UK, the Netherlands, France and Germany, Jesse van Amelsvoort deftly explores ways of imagining community and agency beyond the nation, ethnicity and glib ideological notions of 'Europe'. Fully up-to-date theoretically, the book demonstrates in this way the fundamental significance of literature in creating modes of belonging in a changing world.

Stefan Helgesson, Stockholm University, Sweden