World Literature in an Age of Geopolitics

Theo D’haen (Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1981 University of Massachusetts, Amherst) is Emeritus Professor from the universities of Leiden and Leuven. He has held the Erasmus Chair at Harvard, Yangtze River Professorship at the University of Sichuan, Chengdu, Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and visiting professorships at the Sorbonne and the University of Vienna. Recent publications include The Routledge Concise History of World Literature, Routledge Companion to World Literature, World Literature: A Reader (Routledge), Dutch and Flemish Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury), Crime Fiction as World Literature (Bloomsbury), Literary Transnationalism(s) (Brill), Cosmopolitanism and the Postnational: Literature and the New Europe (Brill), Major versus Minor? Languages and Literatures in a Globalized World (John Benjamins).

• ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments1 Mapping World Literature2 Worlding World Literature3 Why World Literature Now?4 Major/Minor in World Literature5 Major and Minor Players in World Literature6 Victor Klemperer Saves Europe through Weltliteratur7 Brussels as Transnational Node for World Literature8 Larger than Holland: J. Slauerhoff and World Literature9 Adventures of Mark Twain in World Literature10 Caribbean Exile into World Literature11 Anglo-Phone Literature as Global Literature12 Re-orient13 Wither European Literature?BibliographyIndex