...Jeffrey J. Williams “American Literature in the World” is an interview with the literary critic Wai Chee Dimock, in which she discusses her efforts to extend the field of American literature, over time and to various continents, for instance seeing the use of the ancient epic Gilgamesh...

...Lee Konstantinou This essay investigates the common charge that contemporary US fiction and the literature of 9/11 have failed to meaningfully engage with the world. While it is true that American fiction has become increasingly insular and that the New York City-based publishing industry...

...Joe Cleary Though canons and faculty have greatly diversified in recent decades, English departments around the world fundamentally prioritize English and American literatures. To this extent, they resemble the Anglo-American imperial commonwealths that some toward the end of the nineteenth century...

... but resilient concept established its hold in criticism: that of the “death of the novel.” “Death of the novel” discourse existed in modernist discussion before World War II, but its hardening after 1945 changed critical expectations for the major American novel and, ultimately...

..., either)—makes it a privileged modality for intimating the determining features of the imperial everyday. Each of the critics’ rooms is characterized by a visual peculiarity: Pelletier’s toilet bowl is missing Roberto Bolaño and the Return of World Literature,” Journal of Latin American Cultural...

... . Geographies of Modernism: Literatures, Cultures, Spaces . New York : Routledge . Buck-Morss Susan . 2009 . Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History . Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press . Casanova Pascale . 2004 . The World Republic of Letters . Cambridge, MA : Harvard...

...: Globality and Asian North American Narratives . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Ty Eleanor . 2013 . “ ‘A Universe of Many Worlds’: An Interview with Ruth Ozeki .” MELUS 38 , no. 3 : 160 – 71 . Wilson Rob . 2004 . “ ‘Hirelings in the Camp, the Court...

... of American Literary Narrative, 1820–1860 (Cam- bridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005); Fredric Jameson, The Political Uncon- scious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1981); and Fredric Jameson, “Third-World Literature in the Age...

... placing their faith in a scholar who has spent his career countering Western (mis)constructions of indigenous cultures and artifacts. His monograph Book of the Fourth World: Reading the Native Americas through Their Literature (1995) is a synop- tic account of North and South American indigenous...

..., and Central Park, to New Republic, Ploughshares, Partisan Review, Red Wheelbarrow, Jacket, Hawai�i Review, and Poetry. He is at work on two collections 246  boundary 2  /  Spring 2007 of poetry and cultural criticism concerned with place, world, and globalized muta- tions: Ananda Air: American...

... in the New York literary world or be conferred by association with a leading American university. This transfer of literary authority across the Atlantic to the United States itself has a history, one best captured to date at least by Mark McGurl’s work on what he has termed “the Program Era...

... small p”: Essays on the Society of Calcu- lation in Nineteenth-Century France and Against World Literature: On Untranslat- ability in Comparative Literature. Jonathan Arac is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English and founding director of the Center for Humanities at the University of Pittsburgh. He...

... with Benny Golson on the legendary composer and musician’s autobiography. He is professor of American literature at Soka University, in California, where he oversees the “Jazz Monsters Concert Series.” Daniel T. O’Hara, first Mellon Term Professor of Humanities and professor of English...

... changed? JA: Thanks very much, Brad, for the extraordinary attention you’ve paid to a lot of my work. Let me start answering through the notion of totaliza- tion, which is the cousin of totality. I don’t think I have been scrupulous of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature, ed. Wai...

... as American made.) They are right as well to locate the roots of this antipathy both in an “understandable despair” (Magic, 443) sponsored by the recent world wars, the threat of atomic anni- hilation, the ongoing racial war in America’s cities, and America’s adventure in Vietnam...

..., and American studies. She is currently working on a project concerning U.S. writers who traveled to and wrote about conflicts in the “Third World” during the cold war. Lee Konstantinou is a PhD candidate in the English Department at Stanford Univer- sity. His dissertation, “Wipe That Smirk Off Your Face...

... (see Auerbach [1946] 1953: 443 53, 509 15). This democratic poli- tics of language, which in English literature Wordsworth exemplifies, and in American literature Whitman and Twain, has also played a crucial role in African American literature. Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison, who both made...

... World.” Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and the director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Among her publications are Of Grammatology (translation with critical...

... Converted: An American Poetics (2009) was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Beat Attitudes: On the Roads to Beatitude for Post-­Beat Writers, Dharma Bums, and Cultural-­Political Activists was published in 2010. He is working on a new book entitled “Pacific beneath the Pavements: Towards a World...

... of the Early American Novel: Reading the Atlantic World-System . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press . Sitter John . 1982 . Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Thomson James . 1727 . Summer . London : J...