The Routledge Companion to Global Comparative Literature

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Zhang Longxi, MA in English from Peking University (1981) and PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard (1989), has taught at Peking, Harvard and the University of California, Riverside, and is currently Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation at the City University of Hong Kong. He is elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (2009) and of Academia Europaea (2013). He was President of the International Comparative Literature Association for 2016-2019. With David Damrosch, Theo D'haen, and Francesca Orsini, he serves as an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of World Literature. He is also an Advisory Editor of New Literary History. He has published more than 20 books and numerous articles in both English and Chinese in East-West comparative studies. His books in English include The Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East and West (1992); Mighty Opposites: From Dichotomies to Differences in the Comparative Study of China (1998); Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West (2005); Unexpected Affinities: Reading across Cultures (2007); From Comparison to World Literature (2015), and A History of Chinese Literature (Routledge, 2023).

Omid Azadibougar was in his last position Professor of Comparative Literature at Hunan Normal University. He is the author of The Persian Novel: Ideology, Fiction and Form in the Periphery (2014), World Literature and Hedayat's Poetics of Modernity (2020), a co-editor of Persian Literature as World Literature (2021), and one of the founding editors and an editorial board member of Journal of World Literature.

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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?

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List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Zhang Longxi and Omid Azadibougar: "Comparative Literature Beyond Eurocentrism"

Section 1: Institutions and Comparative Literature

1. Ali Behdad and Dominic Thomas: "Comparative Mobilities"

2. Ben Hutchinson: "Comparativism or What We Talk about When We Talk about Comparing"

3. Ken Seigneurie: "Provincializing the Buffered Self: Deep Eurocentrism and World Literature"

4. Debjani Ganguly: "World Literature and Global Anglophone Comparativism"

Section 2: Translation as Comparison, Comparison as Translation

5. Emily Apter: "No Good Paradigms: Untranslatability as Critical Praxis"

6. Thomas Beebee: "Comparative Criticism beyond Eurocentrism: In Search of the Untranslatables of Literary Theory"

7. Liu Yan: "Critical Terms and their Resonance in Translation: The Case of feng"

8. Diana Roig Sanz and Ana Kvirikashvili Chitishvili: "Global Translation Zones: New Paradigms for Decentering Literary and Translation History"

9. Suman Gupta: "Comparative Literature and Machine Translation"

10. Martin Powers: "Reversing Linguistic Dependence: How Translated and Untranslated Chinese Texts shaped Rousseau's Populism"

Section 3: Comparisons, Litratures: In Plural

11. Karen Thornber: "Global Comparative Literature in a World of Pandemics"

12. David Damrosch: "Contrapunctal Comparison"

13. Galin Tihanov: "Towards a Non-Occidentocentric World Literature: Lessons from

14. World Literature and the Modernity Question, Firat Oruc

15. Theo D'haen: "Comparing the "West" and "Rest": Beyond Eurocentrism?"

16. Haun Saussy: "Centers, Peripheries, and Overlapping Peripheries of Different Centers: Variations on 'Word Literature' Models"

17. Alexander Beecroft: "Contactless Comparison"

18. Francesca Orsini, "Comparing Literary Colonialisms: Located Multilingual Perspectives beyond Europe

19. José Luís Jobim, "North-South Comparatism: New Worldism, Theories of Lack and Acclimatization"

20. Wail S. Hassan: "Comparing the Literatures of the Global South"

Section 4: Worlds and Literary Historiographies

21. Mads Rosendahl Thomsen: "Overcoming Thresholds and the Mysterious Travels of Literary Influences: Why National Canons Cannot be Projects onto the Big Canvas"

22. Alfred Hornung: "Chinese Antecedents of Life Writing and the Werstern Genre"

23. Baidik Bhattacharya: "Vernacular Comparatism: The Secret History of Comparative Literature in Colonial India, c. 1800-54"

24. Cesar Dominguez: "Environmental Comparative Literature"

25. Levi Thompson: "Forming a Significant Geography across Modernist Poetry in Arabic and Persian"

26. Lital Levy: "Diasporic Difference: The Global Jewish Journey of Robinson Crusoe"

27. Marie Thérèse Abdelmessih: "Afro-Arab Circulations"

28. Zhang Longxi: "Challenge of Writing a History of World Lit"

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