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The Cambridge History of World Literature

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Editor: Debjani Ganguly, University of Virginia

Debjani Ganguly, David Damrosch, Wen-Chin Ouyang, Ahmed H. Al-Rahim, Ayesha Ramchandran, Baidik Bhattacharya, Julian Murphet, Sonali Thakkar, Vilashini Cooppan, Eric Hayot, Alex Beecroft, Simon During, Theo D'haen, Rosinka Chaudhuri, Zhang Longxi, Doris Sommer, Helena Carvalhão Buescu, Uzoma Esonwanne, Margaret Kelleher, Daniel Y Kim, Leslie Barnes, Sascha Ebeling, Francesca Orsini, Konstantina Zanou, Paul Giles, Dan Ringgaard, Michael Gibbs Hill, Anne-Marie McManus, Adriana X. Jacobs, Heekyoung Cho, Jahan Ramazani, Neil Ten Kortenaar, Hamish Dalley, Jan Baetens Hugo Frey, Melek Ortabasi, Harsha Ram(Berkeley), Muhsin Al-Musawi, Ankhi Mukherjee, Katherine Bode, Andrea Bachner, Ato Quayson, B.Venkat Mani, Sandra Ponzanesi, Gillian Whitlock, Rosanne Kennedy, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Sarah Nuttall

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Date Published: September 2021
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isbn: 9781108557269

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World Literature is a vital part of twentieth-first century critical and comparative literary studies. As a field that engages seriously with function of literary studies in our global era, the study of World literature requires new approaches. The Cambridge History of World Literature is founded on the assumption that World Literature is not all literatures of the world nor a canonical set of globally successful literary works. It highlights scholarship on literary works that focus on the logics of circulation drawn from multiple literary cultures and technologies of the textual. While not rejecting the nation as a site of analysis, these volumes will offer insights into new cartographies – the hemispheric, the oceanic, the transregional, the archipelagic, the multilingual local – that better reflect the multi-scalar and spatially dispersed nature of literary production. It will interrogate existing historical, methodological and cartographic boundaries, and showcase humanistic and literary endeavors in the face of world scale environmental and humanitarian catastrophes.
- Provides a comprehensive global and comparative history of world literature
- Offers clear analysis of concepts, theories and methodologies that define the field
- Highlights the foundational role of translation in studies of world literature
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'This focused scholarly text is an excellent addition to the literature on comparative and world literature … Highly recommended.' M. Oh, Choice

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- Date Published: September 2021
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108557269
- length: 1400 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 65 mm
- weight: 1.74kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Volume I. Introduction
Part I. Genealogies:
1. Ancient world literature
2. The silk roads of world literature
3. Arabic literary prose, adab literature, and the formation of islamicate imperial culture
4. World making and early modernity: cartographic poesis in Europe and South Asia
5. Colonial philology and the origins of world literature
6. Globalism's pre-history: technologies of modernism
7. After 1945: Holocaust memory, postcoloniality and world history
8. World literature after 1989: revolutions in motion
Part II. Thinking the World:
9. Does poetry make worlds?
10. Ecosystems of world literature
11. From world literature to world philosophy and back again
12. Saving Europe through Weltliteratur: Victor Klemperer
13. Viśvasāhitya: Rabindranath Tagore's idea of world literature
Part III. Transregional Worlding:
14. East Asia as comparative paradigm
15. Latin American baroque: or error by design
16. Comparative world literature and worlds in Portuguese
17. Africa and world literature
18. Literary revolution: Ireland and the world
19. Korean Worlds and echoes of the cold war
20. French colonial literature in Indochina: colonial adventure and continental drift
21. From diasporic Tamil literature to global Tamil literature
Part IV. Cartographic Shifts:
22. The multilingual local: worlding literature in India
23. Oceanic comparativism and world literature
24. Mediterranean worlds in the long nineteenth century
25. Antipodal turns: Antipodean Americas and the hemispheric shift
26. The region as an in-between space: Tomas Tranströmer's östersjöar and the making of an archipelagic Nordic literature
Volume II: Part V. World Literature and Translation:
27. Translating iconoclasm: Sino-Muslim Azharites and south-south translations
28. The avant-garde journal between Maghreb and Levant
29. The 'forgers' of world literature: translation, Nachdichtung and Hebrew world poetry
30. World literature as process and relation: East Asia's Russia and translation
Part VI. Poetics, genre, intermediality:
31. Poetry, (Un) translatability, and world literature
32. The reinvention of the novel in Africa
33. The return of realism in the world novel
34. The graphic novel as an intermedial form
35. World children's literature
Part VII. Scales, Polysystems, Canons:
36. Spatial scale and the urban everyday: the physiology as a travelling genre (Paris, St. Petersburg, Tiflis)
37. Imaginative geographies in the medieval Islamic republic of letters
38. The anthology as the canon of world literature
39. Data worlds: patterns, structures, libraries
Part VIII. Modes of Reading and Circulation:
40. Transregional critique and the challenge of comparison: between Latin America and China
41. Reading world literature through the postcolonial and diasporic lens
42. The Indian republic, reading publics and world literary catalogs
43. The culture industry and the making of world literature
Part IX. The Worldly and the Planetary:
44. Asylum papers
45. Guantaìnamo diary as world(ly) testimony
46. The non-human, the posthuman and the universal
47. World literature as planetary literature.
Editor
Debjani Ganguly, University of Virginia
Debjani Ganguly is Professor of English and Director of the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures at the University of Virginia. She is the author of This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form (Duke, 2016) and Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity (Routledge, 2005), and General Editor of the Cambridge History of World Literature (2 vols. forthcoming 2020). She is also the General Editor of the CUP book series Cambridge Studies in World Literature and Culture. Debjani has held visiting fellowships at the University of Chicago, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Contributors
Debjani Ganguly, David Damrosch, Wen-Chin Ouyang, Ahmed H. Al-Rahim, Ayesha Ramchandran, Baidik Bhattacharya, Julian Murphet, Sonali Thakkar, Vilashini Cooppan, Eric Hayot, Alex Beecroft, Simon During, Theo D'haen, Rosinka Chaudhuri, Zhang Longxi, Doris Sommer, Helena Carvalhão Buescu, Uzoma Esonwanne, Margaret Kelleher, Daniel Y Kim, Leslie Barnes, Sascha Ebeling, Francesca Orsini, Konstantina Zanou, Paul Giles, Dan Ringgaard, Michael Gibbs Hill, Anne-Marie McManus, Adriana X. Jacobs, Heekyoung Cho, Jahan Ramazani, Neil Ten Kortenaar, Hamish Dalley, Jan Baetens Hugo Frey, Melek Ortabasi, Harsha Ram(Berkeley), Muhsin Al-Musawi, Ankhi Mukherjee, Katherine Bode, Andrea Bachner, Ato Quayson, B.Venkat Mani, Sandra Ponzanesi, Gillian Whitlock, Rosanne Kennedy, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Sarah Nuttall