Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Editorial board -- List of contributors -- Introduction: comparative literature and the new humanities -- Futures of comparative literature -- Institutional inertia and the state of the discipline -- Performative scholarship -- The reign of the amoeba: further thoughts about the future of comparative literature -- Comparative literature: the next ten years -- Theories, histories, methods -- Periodization -- Comparative literary history: a conversation with Marcel Cornis-Pope and Margaret R. Higonnet -- Petrocriticism -- The politics of the archive in semi-peripheries -- What the world thinks about literature -- Minimal criticism -- Philology -- Comparative literature and affect theory: a conversation with R. A. Judy and Rei Terada -- Comparatively lesbian: queer/feminist theory and the sexuality of history -- Queer double cross: doing (it with) comp lit -- Trans -- Future reading -- Close reading and the global university (notes on localism) -- Worlds -- World famous, locally: insights from the study of international canonization -- "World," "Globe," "Planet": comparative literature, planetary studies, and cultural debt after the global turn -- World literature as figure and as ground -- Baku, literary common -- Aesthetic humanity and the great world community: Kant and Kang Youwei -- Comparative literature, world literature, and Asia -- Neoliberalism -- Counterinsurgency -- Human rights -- Areas and regions -- Areas: bigger than the nation, smaller than the world -- Comparative literature and Latin American literary studies: a conversation with José Quiroga, Wander Melo Miranda, Erin Graff Zivin, Francine Masiello, Sarah Ann Wells, Ivonne del Valle, and Mariano Siskind -- Arabic and the paradigms of comparison -- Postcolonial studies -- Fundamentalism -- Afropolitan Why must African literature be defined? An interview with Aaron Bady -- Hemispheric American literature -- Languages, vernaculars, translations -- Reading and speaking for translation: de-institutionalizing the institutions of literary study -- The end of languages? -- The vernacular -- African languages, writ small -- The Sinophone -- Pseudotranslation -- Untranslatability -- Media -- Archive of the now -- Electronic literature as comparative literature -- Visual-quantitative approaches to the intellectual history of the field: a close reading -- Big data -- Next: the new orality -- Comparative literature and computational criticism: a conversation with Franco Moretti -- Platforms of the imagination: stages of electronic literature Mexico 2015 -- Beyond the human -- Comparative literature and the environmental humanities -- Comparative literature and animal studies -- Multispecies stories, subaltern futures -- Climate change -- Facts and figures -- Comparative literature in the United States: facts and figures -- Index
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