The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History

ISBN-13: 9781032401928 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 376 str.

Opis

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.

This Companion is an interdisciplinary volume, combining essays from historians and literary academics to create a space for productive cross-cultural encounters between the two fields.

Spis treści

Introductions

1. World Literature’s World History David Damrosch

2. Moving Institutions: World History and its Beginnings in Theory Patrick Manning

Section 1: People

3. Artist in Action: On the Lack of an Adequate Critical Vocabulary Tabish Khair

4. 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

5. Marian Malowist’s World History and its Application to World Literature Adam Kola

6. Modernity, Reason and Historical Progress: Keshab Chandra Sen and the History of the World John Stevens

7. Along the Frontiers of Religion, Language and War: Baba Ounus Saldin’s Syair Faid al-Abad - Ronit Ricci

8. In the Worlds of Nizami of Ganjeh (ca. AD 1141-1209): Layli and Majnun and the Riddle of “Courtly Love” - Michael Barry

9. The Rise of World Historical Consciousness in Late Imperial China Xin Fan

10. Literary Historical Intersections: Indigenous Ethnography and Rewriting History from Mexico to Palestine Amal Eqeiq

Section 2: Networks and Method

11. Artist in Action: My Borderland Maureen Freely

12. Routes, Roads and Maps (of) Literature Theo D’haen

13. Classics: History and Geography Piero Boitani

14. Love and Money in Eighteenth-Century Egyptian Literature Nelly Hanna

15. Bridges Across the Seas David Abulafia

16. What World History Does World Literature Need? Bruce Robbins

17. In Pursuit of Happiness: A First Exploration of Morality in Big History Fred Spier

18. The Crises of World Literature: Suez from Building to Bandung May Hawas

19. Afro-Latin-Africa: Movement and Memory in Benin Ananya Jahanara Kabir

Section 3: Transformations

20. Artist in Action: On Parallax Shahzia Sikander

21. Mnemonic Solidarity and Global Memory Formation after World War II Jie-Hyun Lim

22. Dragging Baltimore Into Bay of Bengal: Race, Colonialism and Global Capitalism Beyond the Black Atlantic in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies - Nandini Dhar

23. Connecting to Power: Imagined Genealogies in Southern China and Mainland Southeast Asia Liam Kelley

24. Eclipsing Mexico: Translationscapes of Oe Kenzaburo Jordan A.Y. Smith

25. Colliding Forms in Literary History: A Reading of Natsume Sôseki’s Light and Dark - Reiko Abe Auestad

26. Dance as Historical Narrative: The National Ballet of Mali’s Sunjata and the Enactment of Oral Literature Elina Djebbari

27. Brazilian Literary Theory’s Challenge Before the Non-Human: Three Encounters and an Epilogue Carolina Correia dos Santos

 

O autorze

May Hawas is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.