May Hawas is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.

• Introductions1. World Literature’s World History David Damrosch2. Moving Institutions: World History and its Beginnings in Theory Patrick ManningSection 1: People 3. Artist in Action: On the Lack of an Adequate Critical Vocabulary Tabish Khair4. From Literary Predation to Global Intellectual Commerce: World Literature, World History, and the Modes of Cultural Exchange in the Work of Johann Gottfried Herder and Johann Wolfgang Goethe Christian Moser5. Marian Malowist’s World History and its Application to World Literature Adam Kola6. Modernity, Reason and Historical Progress: Keshab Chandra Sen and the History of the World John Stevens7. Along the Frontiers of Religion, Language and War: Baba Ounus Saldin’s Syair Faid al-Abad - Ronit Ricci8. In the Worlds of Nizami of Ganjeh (ca. AD 1141-1209): Layli and Majnun and the Riddle of “Courtly Love” - Michael Barry9. The Rise of World Historical Consciousness in Late Imperial China Xin Fan10. Literary Historical Intersections: Indigenous Ethnography and Rewriting History from Mexico to Palestine Amal EqeiqSection 2: Networks and Method11. Artist in Action: My Borderland Maureen Freely12. Routes, Roads and Maps (of) Literature Theo D’haen13. Classics: History and Geography Piero Boitani14. Love and Money in Eighteenth-Century Egyptian Literature Nelly Hanna15. Bridges Across the Seas David Abulafia16. What World History Does World Literature Need? Bruce Robbins17. In Pursuit of Happiness: A First Exploration of Morality in Big History Fred Spier18. The Crises of World Literature: Suez from Building to Bandung May Hawas19. Afro-Latin-Africa: Movement and Memory in Benin Ananya Jahanara KabirSection 3: Transformations20. Artist in Action: On Parallax Shahzia Sikander21. Mnemonic Solidarity and Global Memory Formation after World War II Jie-Hyun Lim22. Dragging Baltimore Into Bay of Bengal: Race, Colonialism and Global Capitalism Beyond the Black Atlantic in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies - Nandini Dhar23. Connecting to Power: Imagined Genealogies in Southern China and Mainland Southeast Asia Liam Kelley24. Eclipsing Mexico: Translationscapes of Oe Kenzaburo Jordan A.Y. Smith25. Colliding Forms in Literary History: A Reading of Natsume Sôseki’s Light and Dark - Reiko Abe Auestad26. Dance as Historical Narrative: The National Ballet of Mali’s Sunjata and the Enactment of Oral Literature Elina Djebbari27. Brazilian Literary Theory’s Challenge Before the Non-Human: Three Encounters and an Epilogue Carolina Correia dos Santos

May Hawas is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.

• Introductions1. World Literature’s World History David Damrosch2. Moving Institutions: World History and its Beginnings in Theory Patrick ManningSection 1: People 3. Artist in Action: On the Lack of an Adequate Critical Vocabulary Tabish Khair4. From Literary Predation to Global Intellectual Commerce: World Literature, World History, and the Modes of Cultural Exchange in the Work of Johann Gottfried Herder and Johann Wolfgang Goethe Christian Moser5. Marian Malowist’s World History and its Application to World Literature Adam Kola6. Modernity, Reason and Historical Progress: Keshab Chandra Sen and the History of the World John Stevens7. Along the Frontiers of Religion, Language and War: Baba Ounus Saldin’s Syair Faid al-Abad - Ronit Ricci8. In the Worlds of Nizami of Ganjeh (ca. AD 1141-1209): Layli and Majnun and the Riddle of “Courtly Love” - Michael Barry9. The Rise of World Historical Consciousness in Late Imperial China Xin Fan10. Literary Historical Intersections: Indigenous Ethnography and Rewriting History from Mexico to Palestine Amal EqeiqSection 2: Networks and Method11. Artist in Action: My Borderland Maureen Freely12. Routes, Roads and Maps (of) Literature Theo D’haen13. Classics: History and Geography Piero Boitani14. Love and Money in Eighteenth-Century Egyptian Literature Nelly Hanna15. Bridges Across the Seas David Abulafia16. What World History Does World Literature Need? Bruce Robbins17. In Pursuit of Happiness: A First Exploration of Morality in Big History Fred Spier18. The Crises of World Literature: Suez from Building to Bandung May Hawas19. Afro-Latin-Africa: Movement and Memory in Benin Ananya Jahanara KabirSection 3: Transformations20. Artist in Action: On Parallax Shahzia Sikander21. Mnemonic Solidarity and Global Memory Formation after World War II Jie-Hyun Lim22. Dragging Baltimore Into Bay of Bengal: Race, Colonialism and Global Capitalism Beyond the Black Atlantic in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies - Nandini Dhar23. Connecting to Power: Imagined Genealogies in Southern China and Mainland Southeast Asia Liam Kelley24. Eclipsing Mexico: Translationscapes of Oe Kenzaburo Jordan A.Y. Smith25. Colliding Forms in Literary History: A Reading of Natsume Sôseki’s Light and Dark - Reiko Abe Auestad26. Dance as Historical Narrative: The National Ballet of Mali’s Sunjata and the Enactment of Oral Literature Elina Djebbari27. Brazilian Literary Theory’s Challenge Before the Non-Human: Three Encounters and an Epilogue Carolina Correia dos Santos