Behdad / Thomas A Companion to Comparative Literature

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-4275-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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E-Book, Englisch, 608 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collectionof more than thirty original essays from established and emergingscholars, which explore the history, current state, and future ofcomparative literature.

* Features over thirty original essays from leading internationalcontributors

* Provides a critical assessment of the status of literary andcross-cultural inquiry

* Addresses the history, current state, and future of comparativeliterature

* Chapters address such topics as the relationship betweentranslation and transnationalism, literary theory and emergingmedia, the future of national literatures in an era ofglobalization, gender and cultural formation across time, East-Westcultural encounters, postcolonial and diaspora studies, and otherexperimental approaches to literature and culture

Autoren/Hrsg.

Behdad, Ali

Thomas, Dominic

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors viii
Introduction 1
Ali Behdad and Dominic Thomas
Part I Roadmaps 13
1 A Discipline of Tolerance 15
Rey Chow
2 Why Compare? 28
David Ferris
3 Method and Congruity: The Odious Business of ComparativeLiterature 46
David Palumbo-Liu
4 Comparisons, World Literature, and the Common Denominator60
Haun Saussy
5 Comparative Literature in America: Attempt at a Genealogy65
Kenneth Surin
Part II Theoretical Directions 73
6 The Poiein of Secular Criticism 75
Stathis Gourgouris
7 Vanishing Horizons: Problems in the Comparison of China andthe West 88
Eric Hayot
8 Art and Literature in the Liquid Modern Age: On RichardWollheim, Zygmunt Bauman and Yves Michaud 108
Efraín Kristal
9 A Literary Object's Contextual Life 120
Michael Lucey
10 The Theater of Comparative Literature 136
Sharon Marcus
Part III Disciplinary Intersections 155
11 What Pictures Tell Us about the Letter: Visual and LiteraryPractices in Latin America 157
Jorge Coronado
12 If There's a Text in this Class, Where Did it ComeFrom? Or, What Does Marilyn Monroe Have to do With The Sorrows ofYoung Man Werther? 176
Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller
13 Comparative Literature in the Age of Digital Humanities: OnPossible Futures for a Discipline 193
Todd Presner
14 Comparing Pain: Theoretical Explorations of Suffering andWorking Towards the Particular 208
Zoë Norridge
15 Comparativism, Transfers, Entangled History: SociologicalPerspectives on Literature 225
Gisèle Sapiro
Part IV Linguistic Trajectories 237
16 Orphaned Language: Traumatic Crossings in Literature andHistory 239
Cathy Caruth
17 Contested Grammars: Comparative Literature, Translation, andthe Challenge of Locality 254
Simon Gikandi
18 Comparative Literature and the Global Languagescape 273
Mary Louise Pratt
19 Persian Incursions: The Transnational Dynamics of PersianLiterature 296
Nasrin Rahimieh
20 Rudimentariness as Home 312
Mireille Rosello
Part V Postcolonial Mobilities 333
21 Afro-European Studies: Emerging Fields and New Directions335
Allison Van Deventer and Dominic Thomas
22 The Comparative and the Relational: Meditations on RacialMethod 357
David Theo Goldberg
23 Kidnapped Narratives: Mobility without Autonomy and theNation/Novel Analogy 369
Deborah Jenson
24 Counterpoint and Double Critique in Edward Said andAbdelkebir Khatibi: A Transcolonial Comparison 387
Françoise Lionnet
25 How French Studies Became Transnational; Or Postcolonialismas Comparatism 408
David Murphy
26 Towards a Planetary Reading of Postcolonial and AmericanImaginative Eco-Graphies 421
Sangeeta Ray
Part VI Global Connections 437
27 Terrestrial Humanism: Edward W. Said and the Politics ofWorld Literature 439
Emily Apter
28 Logics and Contexts of Circulation 454
Brian T. Edwards
29 "Worlds in Collision:" The Languages andLocations of World Literature 473
Charles Forsdick
30 The Trouble with World Literature 490
Graham Huggan
Index 507

Über Autor(innen)

Ali Behdad is John Charles Hillis Professor ofComparative Literature and Chair of English Department atUCLA. He is the author of Belated Travelers: Orientalism in theAge of Colonial Dissolution (1995) and A Forgetful Nation:On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States(2005).
Dominic Thomas is Madeleine L. Letessier Professorof French and Francophone Studies and Professor of ComparativeLiterature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He hasedited several volumes on cultural and political topics and is theauthor of Black France: Colonialism, Immigration andTransnationalism (2007) and Africa and France:Postcolonial Cultures, Migration and Racism (2013).