One Lucky Bastard: On the Hybrid Origins of Chinese “Literature”

Chapters in this book

1. VOLUME 1: NOTIONS OF LITERATURE ACROSS TIMES AND CULTURES
2. i-iv i
3. Contents v
4. General Preface to the Series Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective ix
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. Introduction: Concepts of Literature and Transcultural Literary History 1
7. Becoming Literature: Views of Popular Fiction in Twentieth-Century China 36
8. One Lucky Bastard: On the Hybrid Origins of Chinese “Literature” 70
9. Japanese Literary History Writing: The Beginnings 111
10. The Pleasure of Poetry–Sanskrit Poetics and kāvya 135
11. Adab and Arabic Literature 180
12. Let the House Be Dead Silent: A Discussion of Literariness in East African Oral Literature 206
13. Experiences of Orature in Sahelian West Africa 245
14. Notes on Contributors 291
15. Index 293
16. VOLUME 2: LITERARY GENRES: AN INTERCULTURAL APPROACH
17. i-iv i
18. Contents v
19. Introduction: Genji monogatari and the Intercultural Understanding of Literary Genres 1
20. The Autobiographical Novel/Short Story Watakushishōsetsu in Japanese Literature 17
21. The Theory of Ancient Chinese Genres 53
22. Drama for Learning and Pleasure: Japan, China and India in a Comparative Perspective 111
23. Genre in Early Arabic Poetry 156
24. “Genres” in Persian Literature 900-1900 199
25. Byzantine Saints’ Lives as a Literary Genre 242
26. Conclusion: A Pragmatic Perspective on Genres and Theories of Genre 279
27. Notes on Contributors 307
28. Index 309
29. VOLUME 3: LITERARY INTERACTIONS IN THE MODERN WORLD 1
30. i-iv i
31. Contents v
32. Introduction: Cultural Encounters Between Literary Cultures. The Example of the Novel 1
33. Inventing Traditions: A Comparative Perspective on the Writing of Literary History 30
34. African Literature, or African Literatures? Reflections on a Terminological Problem 67
35. The Role of Western Literature in the Formation of the Modern Japanese Novel 97
36. Transculturating the Epic: The Arab Awakening and the Translation of the Iliad 141
37. Euro-African Dialogue Some Examples of African Hypertexts of European Hypotexts 166
38. Notes on Contributors 199
39. Index 201
40. VOLUME 4: LITERARY INTERACTIONS IN THE MODERN WORLD 2
41. i-iv i
42. Contents v
43. “Something Very Light, Perhaps a Little Educative”: Negotiations of Cultural Hierarchies in the Ghanaian Novel in English between Nkrumah and Armah 1
44. Amerindian and European Narratives in Interaction 40
45. Hybridity in Indian English Literature 80
46. Modernism under Portuguese Rule: José Craveirinha, Luandino Vieira and the Doubleness of Colonial Modernity 118
47. The Detective in the Service of the Emperor, the Republic, and the Communist Party 157
48. Appropriations of European Theatre in Japan, China and India 199
49. Globalisation and Cross-Cultural Writing in the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman 241
50. Cultural Encounters in Contemporary Turkish Children’s Literature: Victims or Heroes? 278
51. Going Global: An Afterword 303
52. Notes on Contributors 322
53. Index 324