New in softcover. Hardcover was published in 2022. Contesting the idea that the study of Anglophone literature and literary studies is simply a foreign import in Asia, this collection addresses the genealogies of textual critique and institutionalized forms of teaching of English language and literature in Asia through the 19th and 20th centuries, along with an examination of how its present options and possible future directions relate to these historical contexts. From the Contents: Stephen Spender and Japanese Atomic Bomb Poetry in the 1950s.