The Routledge companion to world literature and world history / edited by May Hawas

Includes bibliographical references and index

Section I. Section 2. Section 3. David Damrosch ; Patrick Manning -- Tabish Khair ; Christian Moser ; Adam F. Kola ; John Stevens ; Ronit Ricci ; Michael Barry ; Xin Fan ; Amal Eqeiq -- Maureen Freely ; Theo D'haen ; Piero Boitani ; Nelly Hanna ; David Abulafia ; Bruce Robbins ; Fred Spier ; May Hawas ; Ananya Jahanara Kabir -- Jie-Hyun Lim ; Nandini Dhar ; Liam C. Kelley ; Jordan A.Y. Smith ; Reiko Abe Auestad ; Elina Djebbari ; Carolina Correia dos Santos -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments, and some blame -- Introductions. World literature's world history / Moving institutions: world history and its beginnings in theory / People. Artist in action: on the lack of an adequate critical vocabulary / 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 / Marian Malowist's world history and its application to world literature / Modernity, reason and historical progress: Keshab Chandra Sen and the history of the world / Along the frontiers of religion, language and war: Baba Ounus Saldin's Syair Faid al-Abad / In the worlds of Niz♯¿m♯± of Ganjeh: Layli and Majn¿±n and the riddle of courtly love / The rise of world-historical consciousness in late imperial China / Literary historical intersections: indigenous ethnography and rewriting history from Mexico to Palestine / Networks and method. Artist in action: my borderland / Routes, roads, and maps (of) literature / Classics: history and geography / Love and money in eighteenth-century Egyptian literature / Bridges across the seas / What world history does world literature need? / In pursuit of happiness: a first exploration of morality in big history / The crises of world literature: Suez from building to Bandbung / Afro-Latin-Africa: movement and memory in Benin / Transformations. Artist in action: on Parallax /4rShahzia Sikander in conversation with Amy Ingrid Schlegel ; Mnemonic solidarity and global memory formation after World War II / Dragging Baltimore into the Bay of Bengal: race, colonialism and global capitalism beyond the Black Atlantic in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies / Connecting to power: imagined genealogies in Southern China and Mainland Southeast Asia / Eclipsing Mexico: translationscapes of ¿¿e Kenzabur¿{u200D} / Colliding forms in literary history: a reading of Natsume S©þseki's Light and Dark / Dance as historical narrative: the National Ballet of Mali's Sunjata and the enactment of oral literature / Brazilian literary theory's challenge before the non-human: three encounters and an epilogue / Index

"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."--Back cover.