Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Foreword 7
4. Chapter 1. Introduction : Globalization, Global, and World as Keywords for History and Literature 17
5. Chapter 2. Can we have a global literary history? 57
6. Chapter 3. World History Needs a Better Relationship with Literary History 75
7. Chapter 4. Re-Gifting Theory to Europe : The Romantic Worlds of Nineteenth-Century India 93
8. Chapter 5. Violence, Indenture and Capitalist Realism in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies 115
9. Chapter 6. Vacant Villages: Policing Riots in Colonial India 151
10. Chapter 7. The Neoplatonic Renaissance from the Thames to the Ganges 169
11. Chapter 8. Radical Presentism 201
12. Chapter 9. Liberating World Literature: Alex La Guma in Exile 219
13. Afterword 245
14. About the Authors 253
15. Index 255