Drawing on comparative literary studies, postcolonial book history, and multiple, literary, and alternative modernities, this collection approaches the study of
alternative literary modernities from the perspective of
comparative print culture. The term
comparative print culture designates a wide range of scholarly practices that discover, examine, document,
and/or historicize various printed materials and their reproduction, circulation,
and uses across genres, languages, media, and technologies, all within a
comparative orientation. This book explores alternative
literary modernities mostly by highlighting the distinct ways in which literary
and cultural print modernities outside Europe evince the repurposing of European
systems and cultures of print and further deconstruct their perceived universality.