...Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François What Is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature . By Cheah Pheng . Durham : Duke University Press , 2016 . ix, 397 p. Copyright © 2017 University of Oregon 2017 Works Cited Allan Michael . In the Shadow of World...

...ENRIQUE DUSSEL The present essay offers an interpretation of hispanos (Latin Americans and U.S. latinos) as historically, culturally, and geographically located “in-between” many worlds that combine to constitute an identity on the intercultural “border.” To illustrate how hispanos have navigated...

...Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan [email protected] World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics . By J. Daniel Elam . New York : Fordham University Press , 2021 . 192 pp. Copyright © 2022 by University of Oregon 2022 What...

...Ben Hutchinson Abstract This article revisits the emergence of “comparative” and “world” literature within the early nineteenth century, arguing that we can only understand the full normative force of the two terms if we read them rhetorically. In order to do this, the article draws on Roman...

... , that is, as world-forming literature rather than world literature. Borrowing from Jean-Luc Nancy's philosophical discussion in The Creation of the World or Globalization , I propose a notion of world literature as a critical practice attentive to the mobilities within the texts. Theoretical considerations about...

...Francesca Orsini This essay questions the geographical categories used to underpin current theoretical and methodological approaches to “world literature,” which end up making nine-tenths of the world, and of literature produced in the world, drop off the world map or appear “peripheral.” Focusing...

... with classical tropes in its attempt to circumscribe a world of ever-increasing complexity. Only in recognizing A Small Place as a text that aspires to envision a culture in its totality—that is, as an epic—can we make sense of its pioneering strategies of representation. By showing the many hidden relations...

...Joshua S. Mostow The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature . By Emmerich Michael . New York : Columbia University Press , 2013 . 494 p. © 2016 by University of Oregon 2016 BOOK REVIEWS / 101...

...José María Pérez Fernández This essay focuses on two early English Hispanists, James Mabbe (1571/2–1642?) and Thomas Percy (1729–1811), who exemplify different stages in the pre-history of Comparative and World Literature. It explores their appropriation of La Celestina and Don Quijote as case...

...Ximena Briceño Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America . By Siskind Mariano . Evanston : Northwestern University Press , 2014 . 357 p. © 2016 by University of Oregon 2016 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 354 Cosmopolitan Desires: Global...

...Katarzyna Bartoszyńska This essay uses a comparative reading of two novels, Jan Potocki's Manuscrit Trouvé à Saragosse ( Manuscript Found in Saragossa , 1804–15) and Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), to investigate the methodologies of comparative and world literature studies. Although...

...John Pizer Recoding World Literature: Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany’s Pact with Books . By Mani B. Venkat . Fordham University Press , 2017 . 348 p. Copyright © 2018 University of Oregon 2018 BOOK REVIEWS / 99...

... of disavowal toward the literary object and received categories like the global anglophone, postcolonial literature, and world literature. The author argues that this is not postcolonial resistance; rather, it is a trepidation to arrive at a conclusion, because to conclude is also to value, evaluate...

...Patrick Collier Little Magazine, World Form . By Eric Bulson . New York and Chichester : Columbia University Press , 2017 . 333 pages. Copyright © 2019 by University of Oregon 2019 It has been more than two decades now since modernism returned to the foreground of literary...

... and authenticity associated with a “human” selfhood. Selfhood, like text, here becomes assemblage: an assemblage of borrowed words. Focusing on Steven Hall's The Raw Shark Texts and Graham Rawle's Woman's World , I show how writing, text, and self are inextricably intertwined, and how this reinvigorates...

...Mark Whalan The Ethnic Avant-Garde: Minority Cultures and World Revolution . By Lee Steven S. . New York : Columbia University Press , 2015 . 285 p. © 2016 by University of Oregon 2016 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 456 While Holub’s book is able to give a clear voice...

... Europe within a world literary history conceived as a nonteleological process of cultural interaction that leads (as he puts it in his title) to the “progress” of knowledge. Importantly, however, as Dainotto argues, such progress does not take Europe to be the highest or most complete stage...

... of the ghazal as both transhistorical and transnational rely on a discourse of “worlding” as an imperial project of cultural recovery and homogenization. In contrast, this article employs the methodology of historical poetics to argue via a reading of meta-ghazals in Persian, Urdu, and English that reading...

...Bainard Cowan The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction. By Lois Parkinson Zamora. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxv, 420 p., 108 ills. University of Oregon 2009 BOOK REVIEWS TRANSATLANTIC...

... of the Fourth World: Reading the Native Americas through Their Literatures . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992 . Calvino, Italo. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler . Trans. William Weaver. Orlando: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981 . ____. Se una notte d'inverno un viagiattore . Milano: Einaudi, 1979...