It is a collection of papers that addresses a central question about the discipline: if Eurocentrism has been integral to Comparative Literature, and if the world we live in is undergoing radical changes, then how can, or should, the discipline change to overcome this problem to accommodate non-Western traditions?
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Comparative Literature Beyond Eurocentrism?
Part I: Institutions and Comparative Literature
1. Comparative Mobilities
2. Comparativism or What We Talk about When We Talk about Comparing
3. Provincializing the Buffered Self: Deep Eurocentrism and World Literature
4. World Literature and Global Anglophone Comparativism
Part II: Translation as Comparison, Comparison as Translation
5. No Good Paradigms! Untranslatability as Critical Praxis
6. Comparative Criticism Beyond Eurocentrism: In Search of the Untranslatables of Literary Theory
7. Critical Terms and Their Resonances in Translation: The Case of "feng"
8. Global Translation Zones: New Paradigms for Decentering Literary and Translation History
9. Comparative Literature and Machine Translation
10. Reversing Linguistic Dependence: How Translated and Untranslated Chinese Texts shaped Rousseau's Populism
Part III: Comparisons, Literatures: In Plural
11. Global Comparative Literature in a World of Pandemics
12. Contrapunctal Comparison
13. Towards a Non-Occidentocentric World Literature: Lessons from Soviet Russia
14. World Literature and the Modernity Question
15. Comparing the "West" and "Rest": Beyond Eurocentrism?
16. Centers, Peripheries, and Overlapping Peripheries of Different Centers: Variations on "Word Literature" Models
17. Contactless Comparison
18. Comparing Literary Colonialisms: Located Multilingual Perspectives Beyond Europe
19. North-South Comparatism: New Worldism, Theories of Lack and Acclimatization
20. Comparing the Literatures of the Global South
Part IV: Worlds and Literary Historiographies
21. Overcoming Thresholds and the Mysterious Travels of Literary Influence: Why National Canons Cannot be Projected onto the Big Canvas
22. Chinese Antecedents of Life Writing and the Western Genre
23. Vernacular Comparatism: The Secret History of Comparative Literature in Colonial India, c. 1800-54
24. Environmental Comparative Literature
25. Forming a Significant Geography Across Modernist Poetry in Arabic and Persian
26. Diasporic Difference: The Global Jewish Journey of Robinson Crusoe
27. Afro-Arab Circulations
28. The Challenge of Writing a World Literary History
Index
