ABSTRACT
Futures of Comparative Literature is a cutting edge report on the state of the discipline in Comparative Literature. Offering a broad spectrum of viewpoints from all career stages, a variety of different institutions, and many language backgrounds, this collection is fully global and diverse. The book includes previously unpublished interviews with key figures in the discipline as well as a range of different essays – short pieces on key topics and longer, in-depth pieces. It is divided into seven sections: Futures of Comparative Literature; Theories, Histories, Methods; Worlds; Areas and Regions; Languages, Vernaculars, Translations; Media; Beyond the Human; and contains over 50 essays on topics such as: Queer Reading; Human Rights; Fundamentalism; Untranslatability; Big Data; Environmental Humanities. It also includes current facts and figures from the American Comparative Literature Association as well as a very useful general introduction, situating and introducing the material. Curated by an expert editorial team, this book captures what is at stake in the study of Comparative Literature today.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |21 pages
Futures of comparative literature
part |86 pages
Theories, histories, methods
chapter |14 pages
Comparative literary history
chapter |13 pages
Comparative literature and affect theory
part |52 pages
Worlds
chapter |10 pages
“World,” “Globe,” “Planet”
part |44 pages
Areas and regions
chapter |13 pages
Comparative literature and Latin American literary studies
part |23 pages
Languages, vernaculars, translations
chapter |5 pages
Reading and speaking for translation
part |53 pages
Media
chapter |9 pages
Visual-quantitative approaches to the intellectual history of the field
chapter |12 pages
Comparative literature and computational criticism
part |35 pages
Beyond the human
part |6 pages
Facts and figures