Sharae Deckard, Nicholas Lawrence, Neil Lazarus, Graeme Macdonald, Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, Benita Parry and Stephen Shapiro are all members of the Warwick Research Collective (WReC) at the University of Warwick. Neil Lazarus is Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick. Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.

• 1. World-Literature in the Context of Combined and Uneven Development2. The Question of Peripheral Realism3. ‘Irrealism’ in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North4. Oboroten Spectres: Lycanthropy, Neoliberalism and New Russia in Victor Pelevin5. The European Literary Periphery6. Ivan Vladislavic: Traversing the Uneven CityNotesWorks CitedIndex

'Overall, Combined and Uneven Development not only offers a much-needed theorisation of how literature is shaped by the ‘world’, but also how it can reimagine different political, historical, and social contexts. Through a number of compelling case studies from a range of geopolitical contexts the WReC exemplify how their theory of world-literature can be discerned and developed in peripheral and semi-peripheral literary spaces.'Isabelle Hesse, The University of Sydney, Postcolonial Studies Association

Sharae Deckard, Nicholas Lawrence, Neil Lazarus, Graeme Macdonald, Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, Benita Parry and Stephen Shapiro are all members of the Warwick Research Collective (WReC) at the University of Warwick. Neil Lazarus is Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick. Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.

• 1. World-Literature in the Context of Combined and Uneven Development2. The Question of Peripheral Realism3. ‘Irrealism’ in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North4. Oboroten Spectres: Lycanthropy, Neoliberalism and New Russia in Victor Pelevin5. The European Literary Periphery6. Ivan Vladislavic: Traversing the Uneven CityNotesWorks CitedIndex

'Overall, Combined and Uneven Development not only offers a much-needed theorisation of how literature is shaped by the ‘world’, but also how it can reimagine different political, historical, and social contexts. Through a number of compelling case studies from a range of geopolitical contexts the WReC exemplify how their theory of world-literature can be discerned and developed in peripheral and semi-peripheral literary spaces.'Isabelle Hesse, The University of Sydney, Postcolonial Studies Association

Sharae Deckard, Nicholas Lawrence, Neil Lazarus, Graeme Macdonald, Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, Benita Parry and Stephen Shapiro are all members of the Warwick Research Collective (WReC) at the University of Warwick. Neil Lazarus is Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick. Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.

• 1. World-Literature in the Context of Combined and Uneven Development2. The Question of Peripheral Realism3. ‘Irrealism’ in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North4. Oboroten Spectres: Lycanthropy, Neoliberalism and New Russia in Victor Pelevin5. The European Literary Periphery6. Ivan Vladislavic: Traversing the Uneven CityNotesWorks CitedIndex

'Overall, Combined and Uneven Development not only offers a much-needed theorisation of how literature is shaped by the ‘world’, but also how it can reimagine different political, historical, and social contexts. Through a number of compelling case studies from a range of geopolitical contexts the WReC exemplify how their theory of world-literature can be discerned and developed in peripheral and semi-peripheral literary spaces.'Isabelle Hesse, The University of Sydney, Postcolonial Studies Association