From the current vantage point of the transformation of books and libraries, B. Venkat Mani
presents a historical account of world literature. By locating translation, publication, and …

When both France and Holland rejected the proposed constitution for the European Union
in 2005, the votes reflected popular anxieties about the entry of Turkey into the European …

In her acceptance speech of Der deutsche Friedenspreis (German Peace Prize, 2003), the
celebrated US author Susan Sontag reflected on “The Fragile Alliance” between Europe and …

On the literary terrain, Kalidasa and Tulasidasa are as much ours as they belong to the
whole world, and Shakespeare, Gorki, Tolstoy belong as much to their own nations as they …

Abigail E. Celis is an Assistant Professor at The Pennsylvania State University, in the
departments of French and Francophone Studies and African Studies. Her research and teaching …

This essay addresses a major gap in the recent scholarship on world literature: the neglect
of libraries and print cultural institutions to determine world-literary circulation and reception. …

Seehofer’s Masterplan Migration (2018) 4 has led to a large-scale deportation of Afghan
asylum seekers by placing limitations on migration in the name of national cultural cohesion. 5 …

This essay explores strategies of world literary comparison when ultraminor literatures are
juxtaposed with dominant literary traditions such as the global Anglophone. By bringing an …

This Special Topic presents a collection of scholarly essays which emerged from a multi-
and interdisciplinary panel series at the 49th Annual Conference of the German Studies …

! ﻣ ﮍﮪ ﻣﺎﺷﻲ (Marh ma shay!;“May you not die!”). In my very first week of learning Pashto a few
years ago, I was startled when my Pashto teacher wrote this phrase on the blackboard in …