The Routledge companion to world literature and world history /
The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History is a comprehensive and engaging volume, combining essays from historians and literary academics to create a space for productive cross-cultural encounters between the two fields. In addition to the 27 essays, the Companion includes genera...
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Table of Contents:
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments, and some blame
- Introductions. World literature's world history / David Damrosch ; Moving institutions: world history and its beginnings in theory / Patrick Manning
- Section I. People. Artist in action: on the lack of an adequate critical vocabulary / Tabish Khair ; 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 ; Marian Malowist's world history and its application to world literature / Adam F. Kola ; Modernity, reason and historical progress: Keshab Chandra Sen and the history of the world / John Stevens ; Along the frontiers of religion, language and war: Baba Ounus Saldin's Syair Faid al-Abad / Ronit Ricci ; In the worlds of Nizāmī of Ganjeh: Layli and Majnūn and the riddle of courtly love / Michael Barry ; The rise of world-historical consciousness in late imperial China / Xin Fan ; Literary historical intersections: indigenous ethnography and rewriting history from Mexico to Palestine / Amal Eqeiq
- Section 2. Networks and method. Artist in action: my borderland / Maureen Freely ; Routes, roads, and maps (of) literature / Theo D'haen ; Classics: history and geography / Piero Boitani ; Love and money in eighteenth-century Egyptian literature / Nelly Hanna ; Bridges across the seas / David Abulafia ; What world history does world literature need? / Bruce Robbins ; In pursuit of happiness: a first exploration of morality in big history / Fred Spier ; The crises of world literature: Suez from building to Bandbung / May Hawas ; Afro-Latin-Africa: movement and memory in Benin / Ananya Jahanara Kabir
- Section 3. Transformations. Artist in action: on Parallax /4rShahzia Sikander in conversation with Amy Ingrid Schlegel ; Mnemonic solidarity and global memory formation after World War II / Jie-Hyun Lim ; Dragging Baltimore into the Bay of Bengal: race, colonialism and global capitalism beyond the Black Atlantic in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies / Nandini Dhar ; Connecting to power: imagined genealogies in Southern China and Mainland Southeast Asia / Liam C. Kelley ; Eclipsing Mexico: translationscapes of Ōe Kenzaburō / Jordan A.Y. Smith ; Colliding forms in literary history: a reading of Natsume Sôseki's Light and Dark / Reiko Abe Auestad ; Dance as historical narrative: the National Ballet of Mali's Sunjata and the enactment of oral literature / Elina Djebbari ; Brazilian literary theory's challenge before the non-human: three encounters and an epilogue / Carolina Correia dos Santos
- Index.