Companion to comparative literature, world literature, and comparative cultural studies / by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek & Tutun Mukherjee.

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The contextual study of literature and culture, globalization, and digital humanities -- Comparative literature and ex-centricity -- Possibilities and limits of comparative literature today -- Comparative cultural studies and pedagogy -- Teaching world literatures -- Comparative literature and the history of literature -- Meltzl de Lomnitz, comparative literature and philosophy -- Comparative cultural studies and cultural anthropology -- Comparative literature and interart studies -- Gender and genre in comparative literature and (comparative) cultural studies -- Comparative cultural studies and translation studies -- Comparative cultural studies and the study of Medieval literature -- ===Comparative cultural studies and linguistic hybridities in literature -- Comparison and postcoloniality -- (Inter)mediality and the study of literature -- African literatures as world literatures -- Comparative literature in Arabic -- Comparative poetics in Chinese -- Comparative literature in French -- Comparative literature in German -- Comparative literature in Iberian Spanish and Portuguese -- Comparative literature in Indian languages-- Comparative literature in Italian -- Comparative literature in Latin American studies -- Comparative literature in Russian and in Central and East Europe -- Comparative literature in the United States -- African literatures and cultures and the universal of motherhood -- World literatures and the case of Joyce, Rao, and Borges -- Abject spaces and the hinterland in Bolaño's work -- The motif of fleeing in Gao's work -- Arab fiction and migration in the work of Haqqi and Salih -- Sexual identity and translation in Prime-Stevenson's work -- The notion of life in the work of Agamben -- Aesthetics, opera, and alterity in Herzog's work -- An intermedial reading of Paley's SITA SINGS THE BLUES -- Painting and representation in teaching Balzac -- Multilingual bibliography of books in compartive literature, world literatures, and comparative cultural studies -- Index.

The collected volume Companion to Comparative Literature, World Literatures, and Comparative Cultural Studies - edited by Steven Totosy de Zepetnek (Purdue University) and Tutun Mukherjee (University of Hyderabad) is intended to address the current situation of scholarship in the discipline of comparative literature and the fields of world literature and comparative cultural studies in a global context. While the discipline of comparative literature in the West appears to be losing ground in its institutional presence, in other parts of the world including Asia and Latin America, as well as in'peripheral' European countries such as Spain, Portugal, Poland, Greece, Macedonia, etc., the discipline is flourishing both in scholarship and in its institutional structure and pedagogical vitality. The field of world literatures is gaining renewed interest in US-American scholarship while the field of comparative cultural studies is a new area of study pursued by scholars who are committed to the intellectual trajectories of comparative literature - minus Eurocentrism and the nation approach - and cultural studies. 36 articles of around 6000 words each are presented in thematic groups in this volume: Part 1: Theories of Comparative Literature, World Literatures, and Comparative Cultural Studies; Part 2: Comparative Literature in World Languages (including the histories of the discipline in various countries); Part 3: Examples of New Work in Comparative Literature, World Literatures, and Comparative Cultural Studies; Part 4 is a Multilingual Bibliography of Books in Comparative Literature, World Literatures, and Comparative Cultural Studies (also available online in open access at http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/comparativeliteraturebooks). The volume is intended for students and faculty in the humanities and social sciences, as well as a general readership.