Comparative Literature Studies, vol 41, n°1, 2004

Comparative Literature Studies brings you the work of eminent critics, scholars, theorists, and literary historians. Their essays range across the rich traditions of Europe and North and South America and examine the literary relations between East Asia and the West. They also explore movements, themes, forms, the history of ideas, relations between authors, and the foundations of criticism and theory. Each issue includes reviews of significant books by prominent scholars.

CLS is published under the auspices of the Department of Comparative Literature at The Pennsylvania State University.  One of its regular issues every two years will concern East-West relationships and will be edited in conjuncture with members of the College of International Relations at Nihon University.

Volume 41, Number 1, 2004

Special Issue: Globalization and World Literature

Guest Editor: Djelal Kadir

CONTENTS:

In Memoriam: Edward W. Said 1 November 1935-24 September 2003

- Cooppan, Vilashini: Ghosts in the Disciplinary Machine: The Uncanny Life of World Literature

- Coste, Didier: Is a Non-Global Universe Possible? What Universals in the Theory of Comparative Literature (1952-2002) Have to Say About It

- Loriggio, Francesco: Disciplinary Memory as Cultural History: Comparative Literature, Globalization, and the Categories of Criticism

- López, Silvia L.: National Culture, Globalization and the Case of Post-War El Salvador

- Stephanides, Stephanos: Translatability of Memory in an Age of Globalization

- Parla, Jale, 1945- : The Object of Comparison

- Heise, Ursula K.: Local Rock and Global Plastic: World Ecology and the Experience of Place

- McClintock, Scott: The Penal Colony: Inscription of the Subject in Literature and Law, and Detainees as Legal Non-Persons at Camp X-Ray

BOOK REVIEWS:

- Wood, Michael, 1936-: What is World Literature? (review)

- Kadir, Djelal: Wedded to the Land? Gender, Boundaries, and Nationalism in Crisis (review)

- Szpiech, Ryan W.: Mimesis and Empire: The New World, Islam, and European Identities (review)

- Naydan, Michael M., 1952-: Russia and Ukraine: Literature and the Discourse of Empire from Napoleonic to Postcolonial Times (review)