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A Companion to Comparative Literature

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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

Author Biography:

Ali Behdad is John Charles Hillis Professor ofComparative Literature and Chair of English Department atUCLA. He is the author of Belated Travelers: Orientalism in theAge of Colonial Dissolution (1995) and A Forgetful Nation:On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States(2005). Dominic Thomas is Madeleine L. Letessier Professorof French and Francophone Studies and Professor of ComparativeLiterature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He hasedited several volumes on cultural and political topics and is theauthor of Black France: Colonialism, Immigration andTransnationalism (2007) and Africa and France:Postcolonial Cultures, Migration and Racism (2013).
Release date NZ
August 22nd, 2014
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Ali Behdad
  • Edited by Dominic Thomas
Pages
544
Dimensions
165x244x31
ISBN-13
9781118917350
Product ID
22546087

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