A Companion to Comparative Literature

A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collection
of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging
scholars, which explore the history, current state, and future of
comparative literature.
* Features over thirty original essays from leading international
contributors
* Provides a critical assessment of the status of literary and
cross-cultural inquiry
* Addresses the history, current state, and future of comparative
literature
* Chapters address such topics as the relationship between
translation and transnationalism, literary theory and emerging
media, the future of national literatures in an era of
globalization, gender and cultural formation across time, East-West
cultural encounters, postcolonial and diaspora studies, and other
experimental approaches to literature and culture

Ali Behdad is John Charles Hillis Professor of
Comparative Literature and Chair of English Department at
UCLA. He is the author of Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the
Age of Colonial Dissolution (1995) and A Forgetful Nation:
On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States
(2005).
Dominic Thomas is Madeleine L. Letessier Professor
of French and Francophone Studies and Professor of Comparative
Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has
edited several volumes on cultural and political topics and is the
author of Black France: Colonialism, Immigration and
Transnationalism (2007) and Africa and France:
Postcolonial Cultures, Migration and Racism (2013).