Debjani Ganguly is Professor of English and Director of the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures at the University of Virginia. She is the author of This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form (Duke, 2016) and Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity (Routledge, 2005), and General Editor of the Cambridge History of World Literature (2 vols. forthcoming 2020). She is also the General Editor of the CUP book series Cambridge Studies in World Literature and Culture. Debjani has held visiting fellowships at the University of Chicago, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and University of Wisconsin-Madison.

'This focused scholarly text is an excellent addition to the literature on comparative and world literature … Highly recommended.' M. Oh, Choice

• Volume I. Introduction; Part I. Genealogies: 1. Ancient world literature; 2. The silk roads of world literature; 3. Arabic literary prose, adab literature, and the formation of islamicate imperial culture; 4. World making and early modernity: cartographic poesis in Europe and South Asia; 5. Colonial philology and the origins of world literature; 6. Globalism's pre-history: technologies of modernism; 7. After 1945: Holocaust memory, postcoloniality and world history; 8. World literature after 1989: revolutions in motion; Part II. Thinking the World: 9. Does poetry make worlds?; 10. Ecosystems of world literature; 11. From world literature to world philosophy and back again; 12. Saving Europe through Weltliteratur: Victor Klemperer; 13. Viśvasāhitya: Rabindranath Tagore's idea of world literature; Part III. Transregional Worlding: 14. East Asia as comparative paradigm; 15. Latin American baroque: or error by design; 16. Comparative world literature and worlds in Portuguese; 17. Africa and world literature; 18. Literary revolution: Ireland and the world; 19. Korean Worlds and echoes of the cold war; 20. French colonial literature in Indochina: colonial adventure and continental drift; 21. From diasporic Tamil literature to global Tamil literature; Part IV. Cartographic Shifts: 22. The multilingual local: worlding literature in India; 23. Oceanic comparativism and world literature; 24. Mediterranean worlds in the long nineteenth century; 25. Antipodal turns: Antipodean Americas and the hemispheric shift; 26. The region as an in-between space: Tomas Tranströmer's östersjöar and the making of an archipelagic Nordic literature; Volume II: Part V. World Literature and Translation: 27. Translating iconoclasm: Sino-Muslim Azharites and south-south translations; 28. The avant-garde journal between Maghreb and Levant; 29. The 'forgers' of world literature: translation, Nachdichtung and Hebrew world poetry; 30. World literature as process and relation: East Asia's Russia and translation; Part VI. Poetics, genre, intermediality: 31. Poetry, (Un) translatability, and world literature; 32. The reinvention of the novel in Africa; 33. The return of realism in the world novel; 34. The graphic novel as an intermedial form; 35. World children's literature; Part VII. Scales, Polysystems, Canons: 36. Spatial scale and the urban everyday: the physiology as a travelling genre (Paris, St. Petersburg, Tiflis); 37. Imaginative geographies in the medieval Islamic republic of letters; 38. The anthology as the canon of world literature; 39. Data worlds: patterns, structures, libraries; Part VIII. Modes of Reading and Circulation: 40. Transregional critique and the challenge of comparison: between Latin America and China; 41. Reading world literature through the postcolonial and diasporic lens; 42. The Indian republic, reading publics and world literary catalogs; 43. The culture industry and the making of world literature; Part IX. The Worldly and the Planetary: 44. Asylum papers; 45. Guantaìnamo diary as world(ly) testimony; 46. The non-human, the posthuman and the universal; 47. World literature as planetary literature.

Debjani Ganguly is Professor of English and Director of the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures at the University of Virginia. She is the author of This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form (Duke, 2016) and Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity (Routledge, 2005), and General Editor of the Cambridge History of World Literature (2 vols. forthcoming 2020). She is also the General Editor of the CUP book series Cambridge Studies in World Literature and Culture. Debjani has held visiting fellowships at the University of Chicago, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and University of Wisconsin-Madison.

'This focused scholarly text is an excellent addition to the literature on comparative and world literature … Highly recommended.' M. Oh, Choice

• Volume I. Introduction; Part I. Genealogies: 1. Ancient world literature; 2. The silk roads of world literature; 3. Arabic literary prose, adab literature, and the formation of islamicate imperial culture; 4. World making and early modernity: cartographic poesis in Europe and South Asia; 5. Colonial philology and the origins of world literature; 6. Globalism's pre-history: technologies of modernism; 7. After 1945: Holocaust memory, postcoloniality and world history; 8. World literature after 1989: revolutions in motion; Part II. Thinking the World: 9. Does poetry make worlds?; 10. Ecosystems of world literature; 11. From world literature to world philosophy and back again; 12. Saving Europe through Weltliteratur: Victor Klemperer; 13. Viśvasāhitya: Rabindranath Tagore's idea of world literature; Part III. Transregional Worlding: 14. East Asia as comparative paradigm; 15. Latin American baroque: or error by design; 16. Comparative world literature and worlds in Portuguese; 17. Africa and world literature; 18. Literary revolution: Ireland and the world; 19. Korean Worlds and echoes of the cold war; 20. French colonial literature in Indochina: colonial adventure and continental drift; 21. From diasporic Tamil literature to global Tamil literature; Part IV. Cartographic Shifts: 22. The multilingual local: worlding literature in India; 23. Oceanic comparativism and world literature; 24. Mediterranean worlds in the long nineteenth century; 25. Antipodal turns: Antipodean Americas and the hemispheric shift; 26. The region as an in-between space: Tomas Tranströmer's östersjöar and the making of an archipelagic Nordic literature; Volume II: Part V. World Literature and Translation: 27. Translating iconoclasm: Sino-Muslim Azharites and south-south translations; 28. The avant-garde journal between Maghreb and Levant; 29. The 'forgers' of world literature: translation, Nachdichtung and Hebrew world poetry; 30. World literature as process and relation: East Asia's Russia and translation; Part VI. Poetics, genre, intermediality: 31. Poetry, (Un) translatability, and world literature; 32. The reinvention of the novel in Africa; 33. The return of realism in the world novel; 34. The graphic novel as an intermedial form; 35. World children's literature; Part VII. Scales, Polysystems, Canons: 36. Spatial scale and the urban everyday: the physiology as a travelling genre (Paris, St. Petersburg, Tiflis); 37. Imaginative geographies in the medieval Islamic republic of letters; 38. The anthology as the canon of world literature; 39. Data worlds: patterns, structures, libraries; Part VIII. Modes of Reading and Circulation: 40. Transregional critique and the challenge of comparison: between Latin America and China; 41. Reading world literature through the postcolonial and diasporic lens; 42. The Indian republic, reading publics and world literary catalogs; 43. The culture industry and the making of world literature; Part IX. The Worldly and the Planetary: 44. Asylum papers; 45. Guantaìnamo diary as world(ly) testimony; 46. The non-human, the posthuman and the universal; 47. World literature as planetary literature.

Debjani Ganguly is Professor of English and Director of the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures at the University of Virginia. She is the author of This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form (Duke, 2016) and Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity (Routledge, 2005), and General Editor of the Cambridge History of World Literature (2 vols. forthcoming 2020). She is also the General Editor of the CUP book series Cambridge Studies in World Literature and Culture. Debjani has held visiting fellowships at the University of Chicago, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and University of Wisconsin-Madison.

'This focused scholarly text is an excellent addition to the literature on comparative and world literature … Highly recommended.' M. Oh, Choice

• Volume I. Introduction; Part I. Genealogies: 1. Ancient world literature; 2. The silk roads of world literature; 3. Arabic literary prose, adab literature, and the formation of islamicate imperial culture; 4. World making and early modernity: cartographic poesis in Europe and South Asia; 5. Colonial philology and the origins of world literature; 6. Globalism's pre-history: technologies of modernism; 7. After 1945: Holocaust memory, postcoloniality and world history; 8. World literature after 1989: revolutions in motion; Part II. Thinking the World: 9. Does poetry make worlds?; 10. Ecosystems of world literature; 11. From world literature to world philosophy and back again; 12. Saving Europe through Weltliteratur: Victor Klemperer; 13. Viśvasāhitya: Rabindranath Tagore's idea of world literature; Part III. Transregional Worlding: 14. East Asia as comparative paradigm; 15. Latin American baroque: or error by design; 16. Comparative world literature and worlds in Portuguese; 17. Africa and world literature; 18. Literary revolution: Ireland and the world; 19. Korean Worlds and echoes of the cold war; 20. French colonial literature in Indochina: colonial adventure and continental drift; 21. From diasporic Tamil literature to global Tamil literature; Part IV. Cartographic Shifts: 22. The multilingual local: worlding literature in India; 23. Oceanic comparativism and world literature; 24. Mediterranean worlds in the long nineteenth century; 25. Antipodal turns: Antipodean Americas and the hemispheric shift; 26. The region as an in-between space: Tomas Tranströmer's östersjöar and the making of an archipelagic Nordic literature; Volume II: Part V. World Literature and Translation: 27. Translating iconoclasm: Sino-Muslim Azharites and south-south translations; 28. The avant-garde journal between Maghreb and Levant; 29. The 'forgers' of world literature: translation, Nachdichtung and Hebrew world poetry; 30. World literature as process and relation: East Asia's Russia and translation; Part VI. Poetics, genre, intermediality: 31. Poetry, (Un) translatability, and world literature; 32. The reinvention of the novel in Africa; 33. The return of realism in the world novel; 34. The graphic novel as an intermedial form; 35. World children's literature; Part VII. Scales, Polysystems, Canons: 36. Spatial scale and the urban everyday: the physiology as a travelling genre (Paris, St. Petersburg, Tiflis); 37. Imaginative geographies in the medieval Islamic republic of letters; 38. The anthology as the canon of world literature; 39. Data worlds: patterns, structures, libraries; Part VIII. Modes of Reading and Circulation: 40. Transregional critique and the challenge of comparison: between Latin America and China; 41. Reading world literature through the postcolonial and diasporic lens; 42. The Indian republic, reading publics and world literary catalogs; 43. The culture industry and the making of world literature; Part IX. The Worldly and the Planetary: 44. Asylum papers; 45. Guantaìnamo diary as world(ly) testimony; 46. The non-human, the posthuman and the universal; 47. World literature as planetary literature.