A Companion to Comparative Literature

A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore the history, current state, and future of comparative literature. Features over thirty original essays from leading international contributors Provides a critical assessment of the status of literary and cross-cultural inquiry Addresses the history, current state, and future of comparative literature Chapters address such topics as the relationship between translation and transnationalism, literary theory and emerging media, the future of national literatures in an era of globalization, gender and cultural formation across time, East-West cultural encounters, postcolonial and diaspora studies, and other experimental approaches to literature and culture

Ali Behdad is John Charles Hillis Professor of Comparative Literature and Chair of English Department at UCLA. He is the author of Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution (1995) and A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States (2005).

Dominic Thomas is Chair of the Departments of French and Francophone Studies and Italian at the University of California Los Angeles, where he is also Professor of Comparative Literature. He has edited several volumes on literary topics and is the author of Nation-Building, Propaganda and Literature in Francophone Africa (2002) and Black France: Colonialism, Immigration and Transnationalism (2007).

List of Contributors	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Roadmaps	p. 13
A Discipline of Tolerance	p. 15
Why Compare?	p. 28
Method and Congruity: The Odious Business of Comparative Literature	p. 46
Comparisons, World Literature, and the Common Denominator	p. 60
Comparative Literature in America: Attempt at a Genealogy	p. 65
Theoretical Directions	p. 73
The Poiein of Secular Criticism	p. 75
Vanishing Horizons: Problems in the Comparison of China and the West	p. 88
Art and Literature in the Liquid Modern Age: On Richard Wollheim, Zygmunt Bauman and Yves Michaud	p. 108
A Literary Object's Contextual Life	p. 120
The Theater of Comparative Literature	p. 136
Disciplinary Intersections	p. 155
What Pictures Tell Us about the Letter: Visual and Literary Practices in Latin America	p. 157
If There's a Text in this Class, Where Did it Come From? Or, What Does Marilyn Monroe Have to do With The Sorrows of Young Man Werther?	p. 176
Comparative Literature in the Age of Digital Humanities: On Possible Futures for a Discipline	p. 193
Comparing Pain: Theoretical Explorations of Suffering and Working Towards the Particular	p. 208
Comparativism, Transfers, Entangled History: Sociological Perspectives on Literature	p. 225
Linguistic Trajectories	p. 237
Orphaned Language: Traumatic Crossings in Literature and History	p. 239
Contested Grammars: Comparative Literature, Translation, and the Challenge of Locality	p. 254
Comparative Literature and the Global Languagescape	p. 273
Persian Incursions: The Transnational Dynamics of Persian Literature	p. 296
Rudimentariness as Home	p. 312
Postcolonial Mobilities	p. 333
Afro-European Studies: Emerging Fields and New Directions	p. 335
The Comparative and the Relational: Meditations on Racial Method	p. 357
Kidnapped Narratives: Mobility without Autonomy and the Nation/Novel Analogy	p. 369
Counterpoint and Double Critique in Edward Said and Abdelkebir Khatibi: A Transcolonial Comparison	p. 387
How French Studies Became Transnational; Or Postcolonialism as Comparatism	p. 408
Towards a Planetary Reading of Postcolonial and American Imaginative Eco-Graphies	p. 421
Global Connections	p. 437
Terrestrial Humanism: Edward W. Said and the Politics of World Literature	p. 439
Logics and Contexts of Circulation	p. 454
"Worlds in Collision:" The Languages and Locations of World Literature	p. 473
The Trouble with World Literature	p. 490
Index	p. 507
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