This book explores the geopolitical and symbolic borders of Europe through the concept of the semi-periphery, which is considered vital in world-systems research for understanding the crises and transformation of capitalism. Focusing on the North Atlantic island nations, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, and Turkey – a set of very different social and cultural landscapes – the book explores the semi-peripheral aesthetics of Halldór Laxness’s and William Heinesen’s novels alongside the semi-peripheral city and borderscapes in works by Orhan Pamuk and Latife Tekin. It offers new readings of texts such as Laxness’s  and Pamuk’s , and provides original readings of works that very little has been written about in English, such as Heinesen’s  and . Rather than replicating postcolonial readings, this book places emphasis on anti-colonial resistance. For instance, Laxness’s and Heinesen’s reworking of the traditional realism of the Scandinavian novelistic canon resists the violence of colonialism and subsequent capitalist development. The book’s world-literary method intentionally links these non-canonical works to a critique of global uneveness and its impact on the literary marketplace.weiterlesen