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Selected Bibliography

Ahmad, Aijaz 1987. ‘Jameson’s Rhetoric of Otherness and the “National Allegory”’. Social Text 17: 3-26.

Alberson, Hazel S. 1960. ‘Non-Western Literature in the World Literature Program’. The Teaching of World Literature (Proceedings of the Conference at the University of Wisconsin, 1959). Ed. Haskell M. Block (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press): 45-52.

Amireh, Amal and Lisa Suhair Majaj 2000. Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers (London and New York: Routledge).

Anderson, Perry 1984. ‘Modernity and Revolution’. New Left Review 144: 96-113.

Annesley, James 2006. Fictions of Globalization: Consumption, the Market and the Contemporary American Novel (London: Continuum).

Appadurai, Arjun 1996. Modernity at Large. Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press).

Apter, Emily 1999. Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press).

——— 2006. The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

Arac, Jonathan and Harriet Ritvo, eds. 1991. Macropolitics of Nineteenth-Century Literature: Nationalism, Exoticism, Imperialism (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press).

Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin 1989. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (London and New York: Routledge).

Ballaster, Rosalind 2005. Fabulous Orients: Fictions of the East in England 1662-1785 (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Bartlett, Robert 1994. The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950-1350 (London: Penguin).

Bassnett, Susan 2006. ‘Reflections on Comparative Literature in the Twenty-First Century’. Comparative Critical Studies 3.1-2: 3-11.

Baucom, Ian 1999. Out of Place. Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

Bauman, Zygmunt 2004. Europe: An Unfinished Adventure (Cambridge: Polity).

Behdad, Ali 2005. ‘On Globalization, Again!’ Postcolonial Studies and Beyond. Eds. Ania Loomba, Suvir Kaul, Matti Bunzl, Antoinette Burton, and Jed Esty (Durham and London: Duke University Press): 62-79.

Bessis, Sophie 2003. Western Supremacy: The Triumph of an Idea? (2001). Trans. Patrick Camiller (London and New York: Zed Books).

Bloch, Ernst 1977. ‘Nonsynchronism and Dialectics’. New German Critique 11: 22-38.

——— 1991. Heritage of Our Times [1935]. Trans. Neville and Stephen Plaice (Berkeley: University of California Press).

Boldrini, Lucia 2006. ‘Comparative Literature in the Twenty-First Century: A View from Europe and the UK’. Comparative Critical Studies 3.1-2: 13-23.

Bourdieu, Pierre 1984. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste [1979]. Trans. Richard Nice (Cambridge: Harvard University Press).

Brantlinger, Patrick 1988. Rule of Darkness. British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press).

Breckenridge, Carol A., Sheldon Pollock, Homi K. Bhabha, and Dipesh Chakrabarty, eds. 2002. Cosmopolitanism (Durham and London: Duke University Press).

Brennan, Timothy 1997. At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press).

——— 2001. ‘The Cuts of Language: The East/West of North/South’. Public Culture 13.1: 39-63.

——— 2004. ‘From Development to Globalization: Postcolonial Studies and Globalization Theory’. The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies. Ed. Neil Lazarus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press): 120-38.

——— 2006. Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right (New York: Columbia University Press).

Brouillette, Sarah 2007. Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan).

Brown, Nicholas 2005. Utopian Generations: The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Literature (Princeton and London: Princeton University Press).

Buchanan, Ian 2002. ‘Reading Jameson Dogmatically’. Historical Materialism 10.3: 223-43.

——— 2003. ‘National Allegory Today: A Return to Jameson’. New Formations 51: 66-79.

Buell, Frederick 1994. National Culture and the New Global System (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press).

Callinicos, Alex and Justin Rosenberg 2008. ‘Uneven and Combined Development: The Social-Relational Substratum of “the Interntional”? An Exchange of Letters’. Cambridge Review of International Affairs 21.1: 77-112.

Calvet, Louis-Jean 2006. Towards an Ecology of World Languages [1999]. Trans. Andrew Brown (Cambridge: Polity).

Casanova, Pascale 2005. The World Republic of Letters (Cambridge: Harvard University Press).

Cheyfitz, Eric 1991. The Poetics of Imperialism. Translation and Colonization from The Tempest to Tarzan (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Chow, Rey 2004. ‘The Old/New Question of Comparison in Literary Studies: A Post-European Perspective’. ELH 71: 289-311.

Cooppan, Vilashini 2001. ‘World Literature and Global Theory: Comparative Literature for the New Millennium’. Symploke 9.1-2: 15-43.

——— 2004. ‘Ghosts in the Disciplinary Machine: The Uncanny Life of World Literature’. Comparative Literature Studies 41.1: 10-36.

——— 2005. ‘The Ruins of Empire: The National and Global Politics of America’s Return to Rome’. Postcolonial Studies and Beyond. Eds. Ania Loomba, Suvir Kaul, Matti Bunzl, Antoinette Burton, and Jed Esty (Durham and London: Duke University Press): 80-100.

Culler, Jonathan 2006. ‘Comparative Literature, at Last’. Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization. Ed. Haun Saussy (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press): 237-48.

Damrosch, David 2003. What Is World Literature? (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press).

——— 2008. How to Read World Literature (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell).

De Medeiros, Paulo 1996. ‘Beyond the Looking Glass of Empire: The Colonization of Portuguese Literature’. No Small World: Visions and Revisions of World Literature. Ed. Michael Thomas Carroll (Urbana: National Council of Teachers of English): 43-57.

Denning, Michael 2004. Culture in the Age of Three Worlds (London and New York: Verso).

Dimock, Wai Chee and Lawrence Buell, eds. 2007. Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

Dirlik, Arif 2002. ‘Rethinking Colonialism: Globalization, Postcolonialism and the Nation’. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 4.3: 428-48. 

Docherty, Thomas 2006. ‘Without and Beyond Compare’. Comparative Critical Studies 3.1-2: 25-35.

Durst, David C. 2004. Weimar Modernism: Philosophy, Politics, and Culture in Germany, 1918-1933 (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books).

English, James F. 2005. The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value (Cambridge: Harvard University Press).

Esterházy, Péter 2005. ‘How Big Is the European Dwarf?’ (2003) Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe: Transatlantic Relations after the Iraq War. Eds. Daniel Levy,  Max Pensky and John Torpey (New York and London: Verso): 74-79

Farris, Sara R. 2010. ‘An “Ideal Type” Called Orientalism: Selective Affinities between Edward Said and Max Weber’. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 12.2.

Fludernik, Monica, ed. 2003. Diaspora and Multiculturalism: Common Traditions and New Developments (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi).

Furedi, Frank 2006. Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone? Confronting 21st Century Philistinism (2nd edn, London: Continuum).

Ganguly, Debjani 2008. ‘Literary Globalism in the New Millennium’. Postcolonial Studies 11.1: 119-33.

Gaonkar, Dilip Parameshwar 1999. ‘On Alternative Modernities’. Public Culture 11.1: 1-18.

——— ed. 2001. Alternative Modernities (Durham: Duke University Press).

Gikandi, Simon 2001. ‘Globalization and the Claims of Postcoloniality’. South Atlantic Quarterly 100: 627-58.

Guy, Josephine M. and Ian Small 1993. Politics and Value in English Studies: A Discipline in Crisis? (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Habermas, Jürgen and Jacques Derrida 2005. ‘February 15, or, What Binds Europeans Together: Plea for a Common Foreign Policy, Beginning in Core Europe’ (2003). Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe: Transatlantic Relations after the Iraq War. Eds. Daniel Levy, Max Pensky and John Torpey (New York and London: Verso): 3-13.

Hall, Catherine 2002. Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867 (Cambridge: Polity).

Hulme, Peter 1992. Colonial Encounters. Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492-1797 (London: Methuen).

Harootunian, Harry 2000a. History’s Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life (New York: Columbia University Press).

——— 2000b. Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

Hirst, Paul and Grahame Thompson 1996. Globalization in Question: The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance (Oxford: Polity).

Hoesel-Ihlig, Stefan 2004. ‘Changing Fields: The Directions of Goethe’s Weltliteratur’. Debating World Literature. Ed. Christopher Prendergast (London and New York: Verso): 26-53. 

Howes, David, ed. 1996. Cross-Cultural Consumption: Global Markets, Local Realities (London and New York: Routledge).

Huggan, Graham 2001. The Post-Colonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins (London and New York: Routledge).

Israel, Nico 2004. ‘Globalization and Contemporary Literature’. Literature Compass 1.

Jameson, Fredric 1986a. ‘Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism’. Social Text 15: 65-88.  

——— 1986b. ‘On Magic Realism in Film’. Critical Inquiry 12: 301-325.

——— 1991. Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Durham: Duke University Press): 297-418.

——— 1998. ‘Notes on Globalization as a Philosophical Issue’. The Cultures of Globalization. Eds. Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi (Durham and London: Duke University Press): 54-77.

——— 2002. A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present (London and New York: Verso).

——— 2008. ‘How Not to Historicize Theory’. Critical Inquiry 34: 563-82.

——— and Masao Miyoshi, eds. 1998. The Cultures of Globalization (Durham and London: Duke University Press).

Kadir, Djelal 2004. ‘To World, to Globalize – Comparative Literature’s Crossroads’. Comparative Literature Studies 41.1: 1-9. 

Kaplan, Amy and Donald E. Pease, eds. 1993. Cultures of United States Imperialism (Durham and London: Duke University Press).

Kapur, Geeta 1998. ‘Globalization and Culture: Navigating the Void’. The Cultures of Globalization. Eds. Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi (Durham and London: Duke University Press): 191-217.

Keel, Aldo 2005. ‘The View from Up Top: Core Europe from the Scandinavian Perspective’ (2003). Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe: Transatlantic Relations after the Iraq War. Eds. Daniel Levy, Max Pensky and John Torpey (New York and London: Verso): 80-83

Kendall, Elizabeth 2002. ‘Between Politics and Literature: Journals in Alexandria and Istanbul at the End of the Nineteenth Century’. Modernity and Culture: From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. Eds. Leila Tarazi Fawaz and C.A. Bayly (New York: Columbia University Press): 330-43.

King, Anthony D. 1997. Culture Globalization and the World-System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press).

Lazarus, Neil 2002. ‘The Fetish of “the West” in Postcolonial Theory’. Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies. Eds. Crystal Bartolovich and Neil Lazarus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 43-64.

——— 2004. ‘Fredric Jameson on “Third-World Literature”: A Qualified Defence’. Fredric Jameson: A Critical Reader. Eds. Douglas Kellner and Sean Homer (Basingstoke: Palgrave): 42-61.

——— and Rashmi Varma 2008. ‘Marxism and Postcolonial Studies’. The Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism. Eds. Jacques Bidet and Stathis Kouvelakis (Leiden: Academic Publishers): 309-31.

Levy, Daniel, Max Pensky and John Torpey, eds. 2005. Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe: Transatlantic Relations after the Iraq War (New York and London: Verso).

Liu Kang 1998. ‘Is There an Alternative to (Capitalist) Globalization? The Debate about Modernity in China’. The Cultures of Globalization. Eds. Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi (Durham and London: Duke University Press):.

 ——— 2000. Aesthetics and Marxism: Chinese Aesthetic Marxists and their Western Contemporaries (Durham and London: Duke University Press).

Loomba, Ania 1989. Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama (Manchester: Manchester University Press).

———, Suvir Kaul, Matti Bunzl, Antoinette Burton, and Jed Esty, eds. 2005. Postcolonial Studies and Beyond. (Durham and London: Duke University Press).

Lowe, Lisa 1991. Critical Terrains. French and British Orientalisms (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press).

Mamdani, Mahmood 1996. Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels 1998. The Communist Manifesto [1848] (London and New York: Verso).

Maskell, Duke and Ian Robinson 2001. The New Idea of a University (London: Haven Books).

McCallum, Pamela and Wendy Faith, eds. 2005. Linked Histories: Postcolonial Studies in a Globalized World (Calgary: University of Calgary Press).

McClintock, Anne 1995. Imperial Leather. Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (New York and London: Routledge).

McGonegal, Julie 2005. “Postcolonial Metacritique: Jameson, Allegory and the Always-Already-Read Third World Text”. Interventions 7.2: 251-65.

Mignolo, Walter D. 1998. ‘Globalization, Civilization Processes, and the Relocation of Languages and Cultures’. The Cultures of Globalization. Eds. Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi (Durham and London: Duke University Press): 32-53.

Miyoshi, Masao 1998. ‘”Globalization,” Culture and the University’. The Cultures of Globalization. Eds. Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi (Durham and London: Duke University Press): 247-70.

——— 2000. ‘The University and the “Global” Economy: The Cases of the United States and Japan’. South Atlantic Quarterly 99: 669-96.

——— 2005. ‘The University, the Universe, the World, and “Globalization”’. Gramma 13: 49-68

Moretti, Franco 2004. ‘Conjectures on World Literature’. Debating World Literature. Ed. Christopher Prendergast (London and New York: Verso): 148-62.

Moses, Michael Valdez 1995. The Novel and the Globalization of Culture (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Mudimbe-Boyi, Elisabeth, ed. 2002. Beyond Dichotomies: Histories, Identities, Cultures, and the Challenge of Globalization (Albany: SUNY Press).

Mufti, Aamir R. 2005. ‘Global Comparativism’. Critical Inquiry 31: 472-89.

Muschg, Adolf 2005. ‘”Core Europe”: Thoughts About the European Identity’ (2003). Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe: Transatlantic Relations after the Iraq War. Eds. Daniel Levy, Max Pensky and John Torpey (New York and London: Verso): 21-27.

Ohmann, Richard 2003. Politics of Knowledge: The Commercialization of the University, the Professions, and Print Culture (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press).

Paik Nak-chung 1998. ‘Nations and Literatures in the Age of Globalization’. The Cultures of Globalization. Eds. Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi (Durham and London: Duke University Press): 218-29.

Pizer, John 2000. ‘Goethe’s “World Literature” Paradigm and Contemporary Cultural Globalization’. Comparative Literature 52.3: 213-27.

Pratt, Mary Louise 1992. Imperial Eyes. Travel Writing and Transculturation (New York and London: Routledge).

Readings, Bill 1996. The University in Ruins (Cambridge: Harvard University Press).

Rosenberg, Justin 1996. ‘Isaac Deutscher and the Lost History of International Relations’. New Left Review 215: 3-15.

——— 2005. ‘Globalization Theory: A Post-Mortem’. International Politics 42.1: 2-74.

——— 2006. ‘Why Is There No International Historical Sociology?’ European Journal of International Relations 12.3: 307-40.

——— 2007. ‘International Relations: the “Higher Bullshit”: A Reply to the Globalisation Theory Debate’. International Politics 44.4: 450-82.

Rowe, John Carlos 2000. Literary Culture and US Imperialism: From the American Revolution to World War II (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Sahgal, Nayantara 1986. Rich Like Us [1985] (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company).

Said, Edward W. 1993. Culture and Imperialism (London: Chatto & Windus).

——— 1979. Orientalism (New York: Vintage).

Saussy, Haun, ed. 2006. Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press).

Shohat, Ella and Robert Stam 1994. Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (London and New York: Routledge).

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty 2003. Death of a Discipline (New York: Columbia University Press).

Stasiuk, Andrzej 2005. ‘Wild, Cunning, Exotic: The East Will Completely Shake Up Europe’ (2003). Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe: Transatlantic Relations after the Iraq War. Eds. Daniel Levy, Max Pensky and John Torpey (New York and London: Verso): 103-06.

Strongman, Luke 2002. The Booker Prize and the Legacy of Empire (Amsterdam: Rodopi).

Subramani 1998. ‘The End of Free States: On Transnationalization of Culture’. The Cultures of Globalization. Eds. Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi (Durham and London: Duke University Press): 146-63.

Teeuwen, Rudolphus and Steffen Hantke, eds. 2007. Gypsy Scholars, Migrant Teachers and the Global Academic Proletariat (Amsterdam: Rodopi).

Todorov, Tzvetan 2005. The New World Disorder: Reflections of a European (2003). Trans. Andrew Brown (Cambridge: Polity).

Trotsky, Leon 1967. History of the Russian Revolution [1932-33]. Vol. 1. Trans. Max Eastman (London: Sphere Books).

Venuti, Lawrence 1998. The Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference (London and New York: Routledge).

Viswanathan, Gauri 1989. The Masks of Conquest. Literary Study and British Rule in India (New York: Columbia University Press).

Walkowitz, Rebecca L. ed. 2007. Immigrant Fictions: Contemporary Literature in an Age of Globalization (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press).

Watkins, Evan 1989. Work Time: English Departments and the Circulation of Cultural Value (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

Widdowson, Peter 1982. ‘Introduction: The Crisis of English Studies’. Re-Reading English. Ed. Peter Widdowson (London and New York: Methuen): 1-14.

Williams, Raymond 1989. ‘The Future of Cultural Studies’ [1986]. The Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists. Ed. Tony Pinkney (London and New York: Verso): 151-62.

——— 1991a. ‘Crisis in English Studies’ [1981]. Writing in Society (London and New York: Verso): 192-211.

——— 1991b. ‘Beyond Cambridge English’ [1983]. Writing in Society (London and New York: Verso): 212-226.