Routledge Companion to Global Comparative Literature

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.

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Comparative Literature Beyond Eurocentrism?Part I: Institutions and Comparative Literature1. Comparative Mobilities2. Comparativism or What We Talk about When We Talk about Comparing3. Provincializing the Buffered Self: Deep Eurocentrism and World Literature4. World Literature and Global Anglophone ComparativismPart II: Translation as Comparison, Comparison as Translation5. No Good Paradigms! Untranslatability as Critical Praxis6. Comparative Criticism Beyond Eurocentrism: In Search of the Untranslatables of Literary Theory7. Critical Terms and Their Resonances in Translation: The Case of "feng”8. Global Translation Zones: New Paradigms for Decentering Literary and Translation History9. Comparative Literature and Machine Translation10. Reversing Linguistic Dependence: How Translated and Untranslated Chinese Texts shaped Rousseau’s PopulismPart III: Comparisons, Literatures: In Plural11. Global Comparative Literature in a World of Pandemics12. Contrapunctal Comparison13. Towards a Non-Occidentocentric World Literature: Lessons from Soviet Russia14. World Literature and the Modernity Question15. Comparing the “West” and “Rest”: Beyond Eurocentrism?16. Centers, Peripheries, and Overlapping Peripheries of Different Centers: Variations on "Word Literature" Models17. Contactless Comparison18. Comparing Literary Colonialisms: Located Multilingual Perspectives Beyond Europe19. North-South Comparatism: New Worldism, Theories of Lack and Acclimatization20. Comparing the Literatures of the Global SouthPart IV: Worlds and Literary Historiographies21. Overcoming Thresholds and the Mysterious Travels of Literary Influence: Why National Canons Cannot be Projected onto the Big Canvas22. Chinese Antecedents of Life Writing and the Western Genre23. Vernacular Comparatism: The Secret History of Comparative Literature in Colonial India, c. 1800-5424. Environmental Comparative Literature25. Forming a Significant Geography Across Modernist Poetry in Arabic and Persian26. Diasporic Difference: The Global Jewish Journey of Robinson Crusoe27. Afro-Arab Circulations28. The Challenge of Writing a World Literary HistoryIndex