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<p>List of Contributors viii</p> <p>Introduction 1<br /> <i>Ali Behdad and Dominic Thomas</i></p> <p><b>Part I Roadmaps </b><b>13</b></p> <p>1 A Discipline of Tolerance 15<br /> <i>Rey Chow</i></p> <p>2 Why Compare? 28<br /> <i>David Ferris</i></p> <p>3 Method and Congruity: The Odious Business of Comparative Literature 46<br /> <i>David Palumbo-Liu</i></p> <p>4 Comparisons, World Literature, and the Common Denominator 60<br /> <i>Haun Saussy</i></p> <p>5 Comparative Literature in America: Attempt at a Genealogy 65<br /> <i>Kenneth Surin</i></p> <p><b>Part II Theoretical Directions 7</b><b>3</b></p> <p>6 The Poieinof Secular Criticism 75<br /> <i>Stathis Gourgouris</i></p> <p>7 Vanishing Horizons: Problems in the Comparison of China and the West 88<br /> <i>Eric Hayot</i></p> <p>8 Art and Literature in the Liquid Modern Age: On <i>Richard Wollheim, Zygmunt Bauman</i> and <i>Yves Michaud</i> 108<br /> <i>Efraín Kristal</i></p> <p>9 A Literary Object’s Contextual Life 120<br /> <i>Michael Lucey</i></p> <p>10 The Theater of Comparative Literature 136<br /> <i>Sharon Marcus</i></p> <p><b>Part III Disciplinary Intersections </b><b>155</b></p> <p>11 What Pictures Tell Us about the Letter: Visual and Literary Practices in Latin America 157<br /> <i>Jorge Coronado</i></p> <p>12 If There’s a Text in this Class, Where Did it Come From? Or, What Does <i>Marilyn Monroe</i> Have to do With The Sorrows of Young Man Werther? 176<br /> <i>Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller</i></p> <p>13 Comparative Literature in the Age of Digital Humanities: On Possible Futures for a Discipline 193<br /> <i>Todd Presner</i></p> <p>14 Comparing Pain: Theoretical Explorations of Suffering and Working Towards the Particular 208<br /> <i>Zoë Norridge</i></p> <p>15 Comparativism, Transfers, Entangled History: Sociological Perspectives on Literature 225<br /> <i>Gisèle Sapiro</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Linguistic Trajectories </b><b>237</b></p> <p>16 Orphaned Language: Traumatic Crossings in Literature and History 239<br /> <i>Cathy Caruth</i></p> <p>17 Contested Grammars: Comparative Literature, Translation, and the Challenge of Locality 254<br /> <i>Simon Gikandi</i></p> <p>18 Comparative Literature and the Global Languagescape 273<br /> <i>Mary Louise Pratt</i></p> <p>19 Persian Incursions: The Transnational Dynamics of Persian Literature 296<br /> <i>Nasrin Rahimieh</i></p> <p>20 Rudimentariness as Home 312<br /> <i>Mireille Rosello</i></p> <p><b>Part V Postcolonial Mobilities </b><b>333</b></p> <p>21 Afro-European Studies: Emerging Fields and New Directions 335<br /> <i>Allison Van Deventer and Dominic Thomas</i></p> <p>22 The Comparative and the Relational: Meditations on Racial Method 357<br /> <i>David Theo Goldberg</i></p> <p>23 Kidnapped Narratives: Mobility without Autonomy and the Nation/Novel Analogy 369<br /> <i>Deborah Jenson</i></p> <p>24 Counterpoint and Double Critique in Edward Said and Abdelkebir Khatibi: A Transcolonial Comparison 387<br /> <i>Françoise Lionnet</i></p> <p>25 How French Studies Became Transnational; Or Postcolonialism as Comparatism 408<br /> <i>David Murphy</i></p> <p>26 Towards a Planetary Reading of Postcolonial and American Imaginative Eco-Graphies 421<br /> <i>Sangeeta Ray</i></p> <p><b>Part VI Global Connections </b><b>437</b></p> <p>27 Terrestrial Humanism: <i>Edward W. Said</i> and the Politics of World Literature 439<br /> <i>Emily Apter</i></p> <p>28 Logics and Contexts of Circulation 454<br /> <i>Brian T. Edwards</i></p> <p>29 “Worlds in Collision:” The Languages and Locations of World Literature 473<br /> <i>Charles Forsdick</i></p> <p>30 The Trouble with World Literature 490<br /> <i>Graham Huggan</i></p> <p>Index 507</p>

<b>Ali Behdad</b> is John Charles Hillis Professor of Comparative Literature and Chair of English Department at UCLA. He is the author of <i>Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution</i> (1995) and <i>A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States</i> (2005).<br /> <br /> <p><b>Dominic Thomas</b> is Madeleine L. Letessier Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has edited several volumes on cultural and political topics and is the author of <i>Black France: Colonialism, Immigration and Transnationalism</i> (2007) and <i>Africa and France: Postcolonial Cultures, Migration and Racism</i> (2013).</p>

<i>A</i> <i>Companion to Comparative Literature</i> presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore the history, current state, and future ofcomparative literary studies. Chapters address such topics as the relationship between translation and transnationalism, literary theory and emerging media, the future of national literatures in an era of globalization, gender and cultural formation across time, East-West cultural encounters, postcolonial and diaspora studies, and other experimental approaches to literature and culture, combining impeccable scholarship with thought-provoking insights.

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