Traces a genealogy of American global engagement with the Global South since World War II. Hosam Mohamed Aboul-Ela reads American writers contrapuntally against intellectuals from the Global South in their common - yet ideologically divergent - concerns with hegemony, world domination, and uneven development.

Explores how intersections between French antisemitism and imperialism shaped the development of European racial thought. Ranging from the African misadventures of the antisemitic Marquis de Mores to the Parisian novels and newspapers of late nineteenth-century professional antisemites, Dorian Bell argues that France's colonial expansion helped antisemitism take its modern, racializing form.

Explores how intersections between French antisemitism and imperialism shaped the development of European racial thought. Ranging from the African misadventures of the antisemitic Marquis de Mores to the Parisian novels and newspapers of late nineteenth-century professional antisemites, Dorian Bell argues that France's colonial expansion helped antisemitism take its modern, racializing form.

As animals recede from our world, what tale is being told by literature's creatures? Resisting naturalist assumptions that an animal in a story is simply - literally or metaphorically - an animal, Thangam Ravindranathan understands it rather as the location of something missing.

Overturns Eurocentric genealogies and globalizing generalizations about 'world literature' by examining the complex, contradictory history of naturalist fiction. Christopher Laing Hill follows naturalism's emergence in France and circulation around the world from North and South America to East Asia.