Cambridge UP, Sachbücher, The Cambridge History of World Literature (Englisch, 2021)

Volume I. Introduction Part I. Genealogies: 1. Ancient world literature 2. The silk roads of world literature 3. Arabic literary prose, adab literature, and the formation of islamicate imperial culture 4. World making and early modernity: cartographic poesis in Europe and South Asia 5. Colonial philology and the origins of world literature 6. Globalism's pre-history: technologies of modernism 7. After 1945: Holocaust memory, postcoloniality and world history 8. World literature after 1989: revolutions in motion Part II. Thinking the World: 9. Does poetry make worlds? 10. Ecosystems of world literature 11. From world literature to world philosophy and back again 12. Saving Europe through Weltliteratur: Victor Klemperer 13. Vi¿vas¿hitya: Rabindranath Tagore's idea of world literature Part III. Transregional Worlding: 14. East Asia as comparative paradigm 15. Latin American baroque: or error by design 16. Comparative world literature and worlds in Portuguese 17. Africa and world literature 18. Literary revolution: Ireland and the world 19. Korean Worlds and echoes of the cold war 20. French colonial literature in Indochina: colonial adventure and continental drift 21. From diasporic Tamil literature to global Tamil literature Part IV. Cartographic Shifts: 22. The multilingual local: worlding literature in India 23. Oceanic comparativism and world literature 24. Mediterranean worlds in the long nineteenth century 25. Antipodal turns: Antipodean Americas and the hemispheric shift 26. The region as an in-between space: Tomas Tranströmer's östersjöar and the making of an archipelagic Nordic literature Volume II: Part V. World Literature and Translation: 27. Translating iconoclasm: Sino-Muslim Azharites and south-south translations 28. The avant-garde journal between Maghreb and Levant 29. The 'forgers' of world literature: translation, Nachdichtung and Hebrew world poetry 30. World literature as process and relation: East Asia's Russia and translation Part VI. Poetics, genre, intermediality: 31. Poetry, (Un) translatability, and world literature 32. The reinvention of the novel in Africa 33. The return of realism in the world novel 34. The graphic novel as an intermedial form 35. World children's literature Part VII. Scales, Polysystems, Canons: 36. Spatial scale and the urban everyday: the physiology as a travelling genre (Paris, St. Petersburg, Tiflis) 37. Imaginative geographies in the medieval Islamic republic of letters 38. The anthology as the canon of world literature 39. Data worlds: patterns, structures, libraries Part VIII. Modes of Reading and Circulation: 40. Transregional critique and the challenge of comparison: between Latin America and China 41. Reading world literature through the postcolonial and diasporic lens 42. The Indian republic, reading publics and world literary catalogs 43. The culture industry and the making of world literature Part IX. The Worldly and the Planetary: 44. Asylum papers 45. Guantaìnamo diary as world(ly) testimony 46. The non-human, the posthuman and the universal 47. World literature as planetary literature.