Futures of Comparative Literature
ACLA State of the Discipline Report
Published on 27. March 2017
370 pages
978-1-351-85303-3 (ISBN)
Description
Futures of Comparative Literature is a cutting edge report on the state of the discipline in Comparative Literature. Offering a broad spectrum of viewpoints from all career stages, a variety of different institutions, and many language backgrounds, this collection is fully global and diverse. The book includes previously unpublished interviews with key figures in the discipline as well as a range of different essays - short pieces on key topics and longer, in-depth pieces. It is divided into seven sections: Futures of Comparative Literature; Theories, Histories, Methods; Worlds; Areas and Regions; Languages, Vernaculars, Translations; Media; Beyond the Human; and contains over 50 essays on topics such as: Queer Reading; Human Rights; Fundamentalism; Untranslatability; Big Data; Environmental Humanities. It also includes current facts and figures from the American Comparative Literature Association as well as a very useful general introduction, situating and introducing the material. Curated by an expert editorial team, this book captures what is at stake in the study of Comparative Literature today.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
2,83 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-85303-3 (9781351853033)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
03/2017
1st Edition
Routledge
€61.10
Shipment within 10-20 days
Book
03/2017
1st Edition
Routledge
€238.09
Shipment within 10-20 days
Person
Ursula K. Heise is the Marcia Howard Chair in Literary Studies at the Department of English and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, USA. Her books include Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species (2016) and The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities (2017).
Content
List of figures
Editorial board
List of contributors
Introduction: comparative literature and the new humanities
URSULA K. HEISE
Futures of comparative literature
Institutional inertia and the state of the discipline
ERIC HAYOT
Performative scholarship
AVRAM ALPERT
The reign of the amoeba: further thoughts about the future of comparative literature
GAIL FINNEY
Comparative literature: the next ten years
HAUN SAUSSY
Theories, histories, methods
Periodization
ADAM MIYASHIRO
Comparative literary history: a conversation with Marcel Cornis-Pope and Margaret R. Higonnet
CESAR DOMINGUEZ
Petrocriticism
MICHAEL RUBENSTEIN
The politics of the archive in semi-peripheries
ADAM F. KOLA
What the world thinks about literature
THOMAS O. BEEBEE
Minimal criticism
JOS LAVERY
Philology
TIMOTHY BRENNAN
Comparative literature and affect theory: a conversation
with R. A. Judy and Rei Terada
JESSICA BERMAN
Comparatively lesbian: queer/feminist theory and the sexuality of history
SUSAN S. LANSER
Queer double cross: doing (it with) comp lit
JARROD HAYES
Trans
JESSICA BERMAN
Future reading
REBECCA L. WALKOWITZ
Close reading and the global university (notes on localism)
REY CHOW
Worlds
World famous, locally: insights from the study of international canonization
MADS ROSENDAHL THOMSEN
"World," "Globe," "Planet": comparative literature, planetary studies, and cultural debt after the global turn
CHRISTIAN MORARU
World literature as figure and as ground
DAVID DAMROSCH
Baku, literary common
NERGIS ERTURK
Aesthetic humanity and the great world community: Kant and Kang Youwei
BAN WANG
Comparative literature, world literature, and Asia
KAREN THORNBER
Neoliberalism
SNEHAL SHINGAVI
Counterinsurgency
JOSEPH R. SLAUGHTER
Human rights
SOPHIA A. MCCLENNEN
Areas and regions
Areas: bigger than the nation, smaller than the world
CHRISTOPHER BUSH
Comparative literature and Latin American literary studies: a conversation with Jose Quiroga, Wander Melo Miranda, Erin Graff Zivin, Francine Masiello, Sarah Ann Wells, Ivonne del Valle, and Mariano Siskind
GUILLERMINA DE FERRARI
Arabic and the paradigms of comparison
WAIL S. HASSAN
Postcolonial studies
SANGEETA RAY
Fundamentalism
MOHAMMAD SALAMA
Afropolitan
AARON BADY
Why must African literature be defined? An interview with Aaron Bady
BARBARA HARLOW AND NEVILLE HOAD
Hemispheric American literature
ANTONIO BARRENECHEA
Languages, vernaculars, translations
Reading and speaking for translation: de-institutionalizing the institutions of literary study
LUCAS KLEIN
The end of languages?
GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK
The vernacular
S. SHANKAR
African languages, writ small
JEANNE-MARIE JACKSON
The Sinophone
YUCONG HAO
Pseudotranslation
BRIGITTE RATH
Untranslatability
SHADEN M. TAGELDIN
Media
Archive of the now
JACOB EDMOND
Electronic literature as comparative literature
JESSICA PRESSMAN
Visual-quantitative approaches to the intellectual history of the field: a close reading
DENNIS TENEN
Big data
JONATHAN E. ABEL
Next: The new orality
CHARLOTTE EUBANKS
Comparative literature and computational criticism: a conversation with Franco Moretti
URSULA K. HEISE
Platforms of the imagination: stages of electronic literature Mexico 2015
SUSANA GONZALEZ AKTORIES AND MARIA ANDREA GIOVINE YANEZ
Beyond the human
Comparative literature and the environmental humanities
URSULA K. HEISE
Comparative literature and animal studies
MARIO ORTIZ ROBLES
Multispecies stories, subaltern futures
MARA DE GENNARO
Climate change
JENNIFER WENZEL
Facts and figures
Comparative literature in the United States: facts and figures
COMPILED BY THE ACLA AND CORINNE SCHEINER
Index
Editorial board
List of contributors
Introduction: comparative literature and the new humanities
URSULA K. HEISE
Futures of comparative literature
Institutional inertia and the state of the discipline
ERIC HAYOT
Performative scholarship
AVRAM ALPERT
The reign of the amoeba: further thoughts about the future of comparative literature
GAIL FINNEY
Comparative literature: the next ten years
HAUN SAUSSY
Theories, histories, methods
Periodization
ADAM MIYASHIRO
Comparative literary history: a conversation with Marcel Cornis-Pope and Margaret R. Higonnet
CESAR DOMINGUEZ
Petrocriticism
MICHAEL RUBENSTEIN
The politics of the archive in semi-peripheries
ADAM F. KOLA
What the world thinks about literature
THOMAS O. BEEBEE
Minimal criticism
JOS LAVERY
Philology
TIMOTHY BRENNAN
Comparative literature and affect theory: a conversation
with R. A. Judy and Rei Terada
JESSICA BERMAN
Comparatively lesbian: queer/feminist theory and the sexuality of history
SUSAN S. LANSER
Queer double cross: doing (it with) comp lit
JARROD HAYES
Trans
JESSICA BERMAN
Future reading
REBECCA L. WALKOWITZ
Close reading and the global university (notes on localism)
REY CHOW
Worlds
World famous, locally: insights from the study of international canonization
MADS ROSENDAHL THOMSEN
"World," "Globe," "Planet": comparative literature, planetary studies, and cultural debt after the global turn
CHRISTIAN MORARU
World literature as figure and as ground
DAVID DAMROSCH
Baku, literary common
NERGIS ERTURK
Aesthetic humanity and the great world community: Kant and Kang Youwei
BAN WANG
Comparative literature, world literature, and Asia
KAREN THORNBER
Neoliberalism
SNEHAL SHINGAVI
Counterinsurgency
JOSEPH R. SLAUGHTER
Human rights
SOPHIA A. MCCLENNEN
Areas and regions
Areas: bigger than the nation, smaller than the world
CHRISTOPHER BUSH
Comparative literature and Latin American literary studies: a conversation with Jose Quiroga, Wander Melo Miranda, Erin Graff Zivin, Francine Masiello, Sarah Ann Wells, Ivonne del Valle, and Mariano Siskind
GUILLERMINA DE FERRARI
Arabic and the paradigms of comparison
WAIL S. HASSAN
Postcolonial studies
SANGEETA RAY
Fundamentalism
MOHAMMAD SALAMA
Afropolitan
AARON BADY
Why must African literature be defined? An interview with Aaron Bady
BARBARA HARLOW AND NEVILLE HOAD
Hemispheric American literature
ANTONIO BARRENECHEA
Languages, vernaculars, translations
Reading and speaking for translation: de-institutionalizing the institutions of literary study
LUCAS KLEIN
The end of languages?
GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK
The vernacular
S. SHANKAR
African languages, writ small
JEANNE-MARIE JACKSON
The Sinophone
YUCONG HAO
Pseudotranslation
BRIGITTE RATH
Untranslatability
SHADEN M. TAGELDIN
Media
Archive of the now
JACOB EDMOND
Electronic literature as comparative literature
JESSICA PRESSMAN
Visual-quantitative approaches to the intellectual history of the field: a close reading
DENNIS TENEN
Big data
JONATHAN E. ABEL
Next: The new orality
CHARLOTTE EUBANKS
Comparative literature and computational criticism: a conversation with Franco Moretti
URSULA K. HEISE
Platforms of the imagination: stages of electronic literature Mexico 2015
SUSANA GONZALEZ AKTORIES AND MARIA ANDREA GIOVINE YANEZ
Beyond the human
Comparative literature and the environmental humanities
URSULA K. HEISE
Comparative literature and animal studies
MARIO ORTIZ ROBLES
Multispecies stories, subaltern futures
MARA DE GENNARO
Climate change
JENNIFER WENZEL
Facts and figures
Comparative literature in the United States: facts and figures
COMPILED BY THE ACLA AND CORINNE SCHEINER
Index
