The Routledge Companion to Global Comparative Literature

Introduction: Comparative Literature beyond Eurocentrism?

1 Comparative Mobilities

2 Comparativism or What We Talk about When We Talk about Comparing

3 Provincializing the Buffered Self: Deep Eurocentrism and World Literature

4 World Literature and Global Anglophone Comparativism

5 No Good Paradigms! Untranslatability as Critical Praxis

Emily Apter

6 Comparative Criticism Beyond Eurocentrism: In Search of the

Untranslatables of Literary Theory

Thomas Oliver Beebee

7 Critical Terms and Their Resonances in Translation: The Case of “feng”

8 Global Translation Zones: New Paradigms for Decentering Literary and Translation History

9 Comparative Literature and Machine Translation

10 Reversing Linguistic Dependence: How Translated and Untranslated Chinese Texts Shaped Rousseau’s Populism

Martin Powers 包華石

11 Global Comparative Literature in a World of Pandemics

12 Contrapuntal Comparison

13 Towards a Non- Occidentocentric World Literature: Lessons fromSoviet Russia

14 World Literature and the Modernity Question

15 Comparing “West” and “Rest”: Beyond Eurocentrism?

16 Centers, Peripheries and Overlapping Peripheries of Different Centers: Variations on “World Literature” Models

17 Contactless Comparison

Alexander Beecroft

18 Comparing Literary Colonialisms: Located and Multilingual

Perspectives beyond Europe

19 North- South Comparatism: New Worldism, Theories of Lack and Acclimatization

20 Comparing the Literatures of the Global South

21 Overcoming Thresholds and the Mysterious Travels of Literary Influence: Why National Canons Cannot be Projected onto the Big Canvas

22 Chinese Antecedents of Life Writing and the Western Genre

23 Vernacular Comparatism: The Secret History of Comparative Literature in Colonial India, c. 1800–54

24 Environmental Comparative Literature

25 Forming a Significant Geography Across Modernist Poetry in Arabic and Persian

26 Diasporic Difference: The Global Jewish Journey of Robinson Crusoe

27 Afro- Arab Circulations

28 The Challenge of Writing a World Literary History

Biography

Zhang Longxi holds an MA in English from Peking University (1981) and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard (1989). He has taught at Peking, Harvard, the University of California, Riverside, and the City University of Hong Kong, and is currently Xiaoxiang Chair Professor of Comparative Literature at Hunan Normal University and Li De Chair Professor at the Yenching Academy of Peking University. He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities in 2009 and a foreign member of Academia Europaea in 2013. He was President of the International Comparative Literature Association from 2016–2019. He is an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of World Literature and an Advisory Editor of New Literary History. He has published more than 20 books and numerous articles in both English and Chinese in East-West comparative studies. His books in English include The Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East and West (1992); Mighty Opposites: From Dichotomies to Differences in the Comparative Study of China (1998); Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West (2005); Unexpected Affinities: Reading across Cultures (2007); From Comparison to World Literature (2015), and more recently A History of Chinese Literature (2023) and World Literature as Discovery: Expanding the World Literary Canon (2024).

Omid Azadibougar was previously Professor of Comparative Literature at Hunan Normal University. He is the author of The Persian Novel: Ideology, Fiction and Form in the Periphery (2014), World Literature and Hedayat’s Poetics of Modernity (2020), a co-editor of Persian Literature as World Literature (2021), and one of the founding editors and an editorial board member of Journal of World Literature.