Editorial [CounterText, 3(3)]

Abstract

This number of CounterText is the first of two forming a special double issue called ‘Thinking Literature across ...’. The title emerges from a book published in December 2016 by Duke University Press, Thinking Literature across Continents, by Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller. So do the articles in this issue, in the sense that all of them are in some form and to some degree prompted by Ghosh and Miller’s book and its ideas on the dimensions and challenges of the idea of transcontinentality in literature. As editors we think of this, therefore, as an experiment. This is a salon issue of the journal, if such a thing exists – and if it doesn’t it tries hard enough, in these pages, to come about.