id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_r65vvjehzjacdbopxfa424aod4 Ronit Frenkel South African representations of "America" 2017 13 .pdf application/pdf 6718 439 45 To cite this article: Ronit Frenkel & Andrea Spain (2017) South African representations of argued that the reputed transformative agency of cosmopolitanism that world literature centralizes always presumes "a recourse to the ambivalent agency of the post-colonial nationstate, and therefore to nationalism and national culture" per se.3 This special issue considers Connections between place, space, and cultural formations are inscribed with and draw attention to the connections between oppressions that cut across nations and continents to reveal the connections between global issues. of literary systems of categorization like World Literature and their impact on African literatures, Sara Marzagora reminds us of the historical context of African studies-based scholarship: "In the case of Africa, these assimilationist practices, based on allegedly universal Local cosmopolitanism is a useful concept for reading South African representations of Frassinelli, Frenkel, and Watson define transnationalism as being suggestive of the cosmopolitan movements and cultural circulations that flow across the globe in this way. ./cache/work_r65vvjehzjacdbopxfa424aod4.pdf ./txt/work_r65vvjehzjacdbopxfa424aod4.txt