Literatures of the World and the Future of Comparative Literature

Péter Hajdu studied Classical Philology and Hungarian at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He obtained his degree in Classical Philology in 1998, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is currently professor at Shenzhen University.Xiaohong Zhang studied English and American literature, applied linguistics and Chinese literature in Hunan Normal University, Hunan University and Leiden University. Now vice president of Shenzhen University, China. On the Executive Council of both International Comparative Association and Chinese Comparative Literature Association.

• PrefacePart 1 Comparative Literature1 IntroductionNing Wang2 Aphorism in Modern Japanese Literature: Elements for a Brief History of the Reception of a Foreign Literary GenreMarie-Noëlle Beauvieux3 Female Narrative as a Strategy in Kingston’s and Amy Tan’s FictionAimin Cheng4 Between Waves and Trees: Digital Humanities and Comparative Reading of TextsBernard Franco5 Two Faces of A.K. Hasheem in Colombo: Intelligent Tourist Agents Navigating the Waves of Anglo-Japanese RelationsYorimitsu Hashimoto6 Performance as Act: A New Trend in Intercultural Theatre StudiesChengzhou He7 Germinal and Minas De San Francisco: Journey(s) of “Disquiet” to the Center of the Earth and the Human in Émile Zola and Fernando NamoraOdete Jubilado8 The Drama Thunderstorm by Cao Yu and Its Presentation in South KoreaLinjie Niu and Lyu XinPart 2 National Literatures and Diaspora Literature9 IntroductionAnfeng Sheng10 The Progressive Movement and Some Aspects of the Debate over Bangla PoetryKunal Chattopadhyay11 A Study on Novels Dealing with Japanese-Korean Romances or Marriages during the Late Japanese Colonial PeriodHuiying Liu12 The Role of Poetry and Voice of the Oppressed: Bengali and TeluguPrabuddha Ghosh13 Spatial Narrative in Snow Flower and the Secret FanXiaoye Dong14 Experience-Oriented Reading of Literature versus Literary CriticismAnders Pettersson15 Queering the Brazilian White Patriarchal Home: An Improbable Room/ a Deauthorized VoiceRita Terezinha Schmidt16 Culinary Representations of Vitality and Heroism in Mo Yan’s Red SorghumMingwen Xiao17 Embodying the Chimera: Cultural Identity and Gazing in Amy Tan’s the Hundred Secret SensesChunfang YiPart 3 Translation Studies18 IntroductionYifeng Sun19 Translating the Untranslatable: Foreign Otherness and Cross-Cultural ReadabilityA Case Study of Wang Rongpei’s Translation of The Peony PavilionKexin Du20 “Nature” in Wordsworth’s Poems Translated in Late Nineteenth-Century JapanChing-Wen Wu21 The Influence of Translated Poetry on the Occurrence of Modernity in Modern Chinese PoetryHui XiongPart 4 World Literature22 IntroductionLucia Boldrini23 Literature: A World History—the View from EuropeTheo D’haen24 Responsiveness to ComparisonFatima Festić25 Hungarian Literature as World LiteraturePéter Hajdu26 “Cosmopolitics”: Derrida on Cosmopolitanism and SovereigntyNick Mansfield27 A Triple Configuration: Comparative Literature, World Literature, and Single-Language LiteratureHarish Trivedi28 China and World Literature Studies: Re-Orient?Theo D’haenIndex