1st Edition
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 general introductions from two of the leading scholars of history and literature, David Damrosch and Patrick Manning, as well as personal testimonies from artists working in the area, and editorials asking provocative questions.
The volume includes sections on:
- People – with essays looking at World Literature, Intellectual Commerce, Religion, language and war, and Indigenous ethnography
- Networks and methods – examining maps, geography, morality and the crises of world literature
- Transformations – including essays on race, colonialism, and the non-human
Interdisciplinary and groundbreaking, this volume brings to light various ways in which scholars of literature and history analyse, assimilate or reveal the intellectual heritage of the past, at the same moment as they try consciously to deal with an unending amount of new information and an awareness of global connections and discrepancies. Including work from leading academics in the field, as well as newer voices, the Companion is ideal for students and scholars alike.
Acknowledgements, and Some Blame
List of Contributors
Preface
May Hawas
Introductions
World Literature’s World History
David Damrosch
Moving Institutions: World History and its Beginnings in Theory
Patrick Manning
Section 1: 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 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 Nizami of Ganjeh (ca. AD 1141-1209): Layli and Majnun 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 Bandung
May Hawas
Afro-Latin-Africa: Movement and Memory in Benin
Ananya Jahanara Kabir
Section 3: Transformations
Artist in Action: On Parallax
Shahzia Sikander
Mnemonic Solidarity and Global Memory Formation after World War II
Jie-Hyun Lim
Dragging Baltimore Into 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 Kelley
Eclipsing Mexico: Translationscapes of Oe Kenzaburo
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
Biography
May Hawas is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.
