1st Edition
World Literature Approaches, Practices, and Pedagogy
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Klaudia Hiu Yen Lee and Eli Park Sorensen
Part I: Key Concepts and Ideas
1. 'Whose World? The "Worldliness" of World Literature'
Vincenzo Bavaro and Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
2. Translation, Multilingualism, and Literature
Françoise Král
3. The Local and the Global: Machado de Assis, A Writer on the Margin
Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos
4. Cosmopolitanism
Eli Park Sorensen
5. Circulation and the Literary Marketplace: Packaging Japan in Paratexts for English Translations of Japanese Literature
Alex Watson
Part II: Critical Reading and Interpretation
6. Readers, Texts, and Participation: Placemaking and Experiencing from Sketches by Boz, ‘Let Them Call It Jazz,’ to Invisible Cities
Klaudia Hiu Yen Lee
7. From ‘Folklore’ to World Literature: Reading Indigenous Responses to Place and Belonging in the Bleek–Lloyd Archive of San Kukummi
Lars Atkin
8. A Cosmopolitan Orientation: Teaching about Migrant Labor and Literary Form in Timothy Mo’s Renegade or Halo2 and José Dalisay’s Soledad’s Sister
Angelia Poon
9. Silent Subject: Sex Work and Narration in Geling Yan's The Lost Daughter of Happiness
Clara Iwasaki
10. Collaborative Refugee Literature and Dialogic Teaching in Times of Humanitarian Crisis: Towards a Plural Understanding of the World
Núria Codina Solà
11. All Literature is World Literature in Waiting: A Case for Global South Languages and African Literature
Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Index
Biography
Klaudia Hiu Yen Lee is Associate Professor at the Department of English of the City University of Hong Kong. She is the author of Charles Dickens and China: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1895–1915 (2017) and Spatial Stories and Intersecting Geographies: Hong Kong, Britain, and China, 1890–1940 (2025).
Eli Park Sorensen is Associate Professor in the English Department at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Postcolonial Studies and the Literary (2010), Postcolonial Realism and the Concept of the Political (2021), and Science Fiction Film (2021).
