World Literature is a vital part of twentieth-first century critical and comparative literary studies. As a field that engages seriously with function of literary studies in our global era, the study of World literature requires new approaches. The Cambridge History of World Literature is founded on the assumption that World Literature is not all literatures of the world nor a canonical set of globally successful literary works. It highlights scholarship on literary works that focus on the logics of circulation drawn from multiple literary cultures and technologies of the textual. While not rejecting the nation as a site of analysis, these volumes will offer insights into new cartographies - the hemispheric, the oceanic, the transregional, the archipelagic, the multilingual local - that better reflect the multi-scalar and spatially dispersed nature of literary production. It will interrogate existing historical, methodological and cartographic boundaries, and showcase humanistic and literary endeavors in the face of world scale environmental and humanitarian catastrophes.
Edited by:
Debjani Ganguly (University of Virginia)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 158mm,
Spine: 65mm
Weight: 1.740kg
ISBN: 9781108557269
ISBN 10: 1108557260
Pages: 1400
Publication Date: 09 September 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Volume I. Introduction; Part I. Genealogies: 1. Ancient world literature; 2. The silk roads of world literature; 3. Arabic literary prose, adab literature, and the formation of islamicate imperial culture; 4. World making and early modernity: cartographic poesis in Europe and South Asia; 5. Colonial philology and the origins of world literature; 6. Globalism's pre-history: technologies of modernism; 7. After 1945: Holocaust memory, postcoloniality and world history; 8. World literature after 1989: revolutions in motion; Part II. Thinking the World: 9. Does poetry make worlds?; 10. Ecosystems of world literature; 11. From world literature to world philosophy and back again; 12. Saving Europe through Weltliteratur: Victor Klemperer; 13. Visvasahitya: Rabindranath Tagore's idea of world literature; Part III. Transregional Worlding: 14. East Asia as comparative paradigm; 15. Latin American baroque: or error by design; 16. Comparative world literature and worlds in Portuguese; 17. Africa and world literature; 18. Literary revolution: Ireland and the world; 19. Korean Worlds and echoes of the cold war; 20. French colonial literature in Indochina: colonial adventure and continental drift; 21. From diasporic Tamil literature to global Tamil literature; Part IV. Cartographic Shifts: 22. The multilingual local: worlding literature in India; 23. Oceanic comparativism and world literature; 24. Mediterranean worlds in the long nineteenth century; 25. Antipodal turns: Antipodean Americas and the hemispheric shift; 26. The region as an in-between space: Tomas Transtroemer's oestersjoear and the making of an archipelagic Nordic literature; Volume II: Part V. World Literature and Translation: 27. Translating iconoclasm: Sino-Muslim Azharites and south-south translations; 28. The avant-garde journal between Maghreb and Levant; 29. The 'forgers' of world literature: translation, Nachdichtung and Hebrew world poetry; 30. World literature as process and relation: East Asia's Russia and translation; Part VI. Poetics, genre, intermediality: 31. Poetry, (Un) translatability, and world literature; 32. The reinvention of the novel in Africa; 33. The return of realism in the world novel; 34. The graphic novel as an intermedial form; 35. World children's literature; Part VII. Scales, Polysystems, Canons: 36. Spatial scale and the urban everyday: the physiology as a travelling genre (Paris, St. Petersburg, Tiflis); 37. Imaginative geographies in the medieval Islamic republic of letters; 38. The anthology as the canon of world literature; 39. Data worlds: patterns, structures, libraries; Part VIII. Modes of Reading and Circulation: 40. Transregional critique and the challenge of comparison: between Latin America and China; 41. Reading world literature through the postcolonial and diasporic lens; 42. The Indian republic, reading publics and world literary catalogs; 43. The culture industry and the making of world literature; Part IX. The Worldly and the Planetary: 44. Asylum papers; 45. Guantainamo diary as world(ly) testimony; 46. The non-human, the posthuman and the universal; 47. World literature as planetary literature.
Debjani Ganguly is Professor of English and Director of the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures at the University of Virginia. She is the author of This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form (Duke, 2016) and Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity (Routledge, 2005), and General Editor of the Cambridge History of World Literature (2 vols. forthcoming 2020). She is also the General Editor of the CUP book series Cambridge Studies in World Literature and Culture. Debjani has held visiting fellowships at the University of Chicago, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
