Translation and World Literature offers a variety of international perspectives on the complex role of translation in the dissemination of literatures around th

World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challenged both this

Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large

As a growing number of contemporary novelists write for publication in multiple languages, the genre's form and aims are shifting. Born-translated novels includ

This volume engages critically with the recent and ongoing consolidation of "world literature" as a paradigm of study. On the basis of an extended, active, and