Book description
A Companion to Comparative Literature
presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from
established and emerging scholars, which explore the history, current
state, and future of comparative literature.
- Features over thirty original essays from leading international
contributors
- Provides a critical assessment of the status of literary and
cross-cultural inquiry
- Addresses the history, current state, and future of comparative
literature
- Chapters address such topics as the relationship between
translation and transnationalism, literary theory and emerging
media, the future of national literatures in an era of
globalization, gender and cultural formation across time, East-West
cultural encounters, postcolonial and diaspora studies, and other
experimental approaches to literature and culture
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).
