Read more
This Companion is an interdisciplinary volume, combining essays from historians and literary academics to create a space for productive cross-cultural encounters between the two fields.
List of contents
Introductions
1. World Literature’s World History David Damrosch
2. Moving Institutions: World History and its Beginnings in Theory Patrick Manning
Section 1: People
3. Artist in Action: On the Lack of an Adequate Critical Vocabulary Tabish Khair
4. From Literary Predation to Global Intellectual Commerce: World Literature, World History, and the Modes of Cultural Exchange in the Work of Johann Gottfried Herder and Johann Wolfgang Goethe Christian Moser
5. Marian Malowist’s World History and its Application to World Literature Adam Kola
6. Modernity, Reason and Historical Progress: Keshab Chandra Sen and the History of the World John Stevens
7. Along the Frontiers of Religion, Language and War: Baba Ounus Saldin’s Syair Faid al-Abad - Ronit Ricci
8. In the Worlds of Nizami of Ganjeh (ca. AD 1141-1209): Layli and Majnun and the Riddle of “Courtly Love” - Michael Barry
9. The Rise of World Historical Consciousness in Late Imperial China Xin Fan
10. Literary Historical Intersections: Indigenous Ethnography and Rewriting History from Mexico to Palestine Amal Eqeiq
Section 2: Networks and Method
11. Artist in Action: My Borderland Maureen Freely
12. Routes, Roads and Maps (of) Literature Theo D’haen
13. Classics: History and Geography Piero Boitani
14. Love and Money in Eighteenth-Century Egyptian Literature Nelly Hanna
15. Bridges Across the Seas David Abulafia
16. What World History Does World Literature Need? Bruce Robbins
17. In Pursuit of Happiness: A First Exploration of Morality in Big History Fred Spier
18. The Crises of World Literature: Suez from Building to Bandung May Hawas
19. Afro-Latin-Africa: Movement and Memory in Benin Ananya Jahanara Kabir
Section 3: Transformations
20. Artist in Action: On Parallax Shahzia Sikander
21. Mnemonic Solidarity and Global Memory Formation after World War II Jie-Hyun Lim
22. Dragging Baltimore Into Bay of Bengal: Race, Colonialism and Global Capitalism Beyond the Black Atlantic in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies - Nandini Dhar
23. Connecting to Power: Imagined Genealogies in Southern China and Mainland Southeast Asia Liam Kelley
24. Eclipsing Mexico: Translationscapes of Oe Kenzaburo Jordan A.Y. Smith
25. Colliding Forms in Literary History: A Reading of Natsume Sôseki’s Light and Dark - Reiko Abe Auestad
26. Dance as Historical Narrative: The National Ballet of Mali’s Sunjata and the Enactment of Oral Literature Elina Djebbari
27. Brazilian Literary Theory’s Challenge Before the Non-Human: Three Encounters and an Epilogue Carolina Correia dos Santos
About the author
May Hawas is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.
Summary
This Companion is an interdisciplinary volume, combining essays from historians and literary academics to create a space for productive cross-cultural encounters between the two fields.
