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A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collectionof more than thirty original essays from established and emergingscholars, which explore the history, current state, and future ofcomparative literature.
Features over thirty original essays from leading internationalcontributors Provides a critical assessment of the status of literary andcross-cultural inquiry Addresses the history, current state, and future of comparativeliterature Chapters address such topics as the relationship betweentranslation and transnationalism, literary theory and emergingmedia, the future of national…mehr

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A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collectionof more than thirty original essays from established and emergingscholars, which explore the history, current state, and future ofcomparative literature.

Features over thirty original essays from leading internationalcontributors
Provides a critical assessment of the status of literary andcross-cultural inquiry
Addresses the history, current state, and future of comparativeliterature
Chapters address such topics as the relationship betweentranslation and transnationalism, literary theory and emergingmedia, the future of national literatures in an era ofglobalization, gender and cultural formation across time, East-Westcultural encounters, postcolonial and diaspora studies, and otherexperimental approaches to literature and culture
Autorenporträt
Ali Behdad is John Charles Hillis Professor of Comparative Literature and Chair of English Department at UCLA. He is the author of Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution (1995) and A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States (2005). Dominic Thomas is Chair of the Departments of French and Francophone Studies and Italian at the University of California Los Angeles, where he is also Professor of Comparative Literature. He has edited several volumes on literary topics and is the author of Nation-Building, Propaganda and Literature in Francophone Africa (2002) and Black France: Colonialism, Immigration and Transnationalism (2007).