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 The book includes previously unpublished interviews with key figures in the discipline as well as a range of different essays - short pieces on key topics and longer, in-depth pieces.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…mehr
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 The book includes previously unpublished interviews with key figures in the discipline as well as a range of different essays - short pieces on key topics and longer, in-depth pieces.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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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).
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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
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
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