Where Is World Literature?

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. INTRODUCTION
5. Studying Transcultural Literary History: Introduction 3
6. POSSIBILITIES FOR TRANSCULTURAL LITERARY HISTORY
7. Possibilities for Transcultural Literary History 9
8. Naming of Parts, or, How Things Shape Up in Trans cultural Literary History 12
9. The World as India: Some Models of Literary History 23
10. Iron Square Memoranda (Mutatis Mutandis): For a World Literary History 32
11. A ‘Culture-Sensitive Approach’ to Transcultural Literary History 43
12. Two Questions for Global Literary History 52
13. DELIMITING THE OBJECTS OF LITERARY HISTORY
14. Delimiting the Objects of Literary History 63
15. African Histories of Textuality 66
16. Re-Membering the Present: Placing the Praise Poet/imbongi in a Transcultural Literary History 76
17. Rhetorical Uses of Folk Poetry in Nineteenth-Century East-Central Europe 88
18. Historical Change of the Conceptions of ‘Literature’ and Formulation of ‘Japanese Literature’ in the Late Nineteenth-Century Japan 98
19. RETHINKING WORLD LITERATURE
20. Rethinking World Literature 111
21. Evolution, World-Systems, Weltliteratur 113
22. Arguments and Further Conjectures on World Literature 122
23. A Little Pact with the Devil?: On Franco Moretti's Conjectures on World Literature 133
24. Glocalizing the Novel 144
25. THE PRACTICE OF WRITING TRANSNATIONAL AND TRANSLINGUAL LITERARY HISTORY
26. The Practice of Writing Transnational and Translingual Literary History 155
27. On the Englishness of English Literary Histories as a Challenge to Transcultural Literary History 158
28. Drawing a Map of a Literary History of Europe 169
29. Writing Literary History: A Perspective from the South of the Globe 180
30. Fugitive Modernities: Black Writing and Transnational Theory in South African Literature 188
31. Transnational Approaches in post-1989 Comparative Literary History: Writing the History of East-Central European Literary Cultures 197
32. LITERATURE IN CIRCULATION
33. Literature in Circulation 209
34. Where Is World Literature? 211
35. The Gītagovinda: A Twelfth-Century Sanskrit Poem Travels West 221
36. The Story of Majnūn Laylā in Transcultural Perspectives 232
37. Migrant Writers and Cosmopolitan Readers 244
38. TRANSLATING CULTURES AND LITERATURES
39. Translating Cultures and Literatures 253
40. A Cognitive Model of Cross-Cultural Literary Influence 255
41. Intercultural Literary Studies in an Age of Globalisation 265
42. Janus Came and Never Left: Writing Literary History in the Face of the Other 278
43. The Concrete and the Universal in Renaissance Arabic Thought 289
44. Translation and Ethnography in Literary Transaction 300
45. Notes on Contributors 310