Rethinking English/Cultural Studies in Global Contexts:

Aldridge, A. Owen. The Reemergence of World Literature: A Study of Asia and the West. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1986.

Ali, Tariq. “Literature and Market Realism.” New Left Review 199 (1993): 140-45.

Allan, Tuzyline Jita, ed. “Teaching African Literature in a Global Literary Economy” Women’s Studies Quarterly 25.3-4 (1997) (special issue).

Amireh, Amal and Lisa Suhair Majaj, eds. Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers. New York: Garland, 2002.

Appiah, Kwame Anthony. In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture. New York: Oxford UP, 1992.

Appiah, Kwame Anthony. “Cosmopolitan Reading.” Cosmopolitan Geographies: New Locations in Literature and Culture. Ed. Vinay Dharwadker. New York: Routledge, 2001. 197-227.

Apter, Emily. Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1999.

Asad, Talal. “A Comment on Translation, Critique, and Subversion.” Between Languages and Cultures: Translation and Cross-Cultural Texts. Eds. Anuradha Dingwaney and Carol Maier. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1995. 325-32.

Balme, C. Theater im postkolonialen Zeitalter. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1995.

Banjo, Ayo. “Issues in the Teaching of English Literature in Nigeria.” English in the World: Teaching and Learning the Language and Literatures. Eds. Randolph Quirk and H.G. Widdowson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985. 200-06, with comments by Svetozar Koljević (207) and Maurits Simatupang (208-09).

Bassnett, Susan. Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.

Bassnett, Susan and Harish Trivedi, eds. Post-Colonial Translation: Theory and Practice. London: Routledge, 1999.

Baucom, Ian. “Globalit, Inc.; or, The Cultural Logic of Global Literary Studies.” PMLA 116 (2001): 158-72. [JSTOR]

Beck, Ervin. “International Literature for American Students.” College English35 (1974), 670-73. [JSTOR]
(describes a general education course on 20th-century writing from the peripheries, domestic and international, that was offered in the early 1970s as an alternative to the Eurocentric “world literature” courses then in existence)

Berg, J. and H. Rischbieter. Welttheater. Westermann: Braunschweig, 1985.

Bernheimer, Charles, ed. Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1995.

Bérubé, Michael. “Introduction: Worldly English.” Modern Fiction Studies48.1 (2002): 1-17.

Bharucha, Rustom. Theatre and the World: Performance and the Politics of Culture. New York: Routledge, 1993.

Bharucha, Rustom. “Interculturalism and Its Discriminations: Shifting the Agendas of the National, the Multicultural and the Global.” Third Text 46 (1999): 3-20.

Bharucha, Rustom. The Politics of Cultural Practice: Thinking through Theater in an Age of Globalization. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2000.

Blayer, Maria F. and Monica Sanchez, eds. Storytelling: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives. New York: Peter Lang, 2002.

Brydon, Diana. "Commonwealth or Common Poverty? The New Literatures in English and the New Discourse of Marginality." Kunapipi 11.1 (1989).

Buell, Frederick. National Culture and the New Global System. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994.
reviews:
          Bose, Purnima. Victorian Studies 39.4 (1996): 585-88. [ABELL]
          Bush, Harold K. College Literature 23.2 (1996): 181-88. [ABELL]

Buell, Frederick. “Nationalist Postnationalism: Globalist Discourse in Contemporary American Culture.” American Quarterly 50 (1998): 548-91.

Casanova, Pascale. La République mondiale des lettres. Paris: Seuil, 1999.

Chambers, I. Migrancy, Culture, Identity. London: Routledge, 1994.

Chow, Rey. Women and Chinese Modernity: The Politics of Reading between East and West. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1991.

Chow, Rey. Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1993.

Chow, Rey. “A Phantom Discipline.” PMLA 116 (2001): 1386-95.

Chow, Rey. The Protestant Ethnic & the Spirit of Capitalism. New York: Columbia UP, 2002.

Clifford, James. “Traveling Cultures.” Cultural Studies. Eds. Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula Treichler. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Clifford, James. Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1997.

Cooppan, Vilashini. “W(h)ither Post-colonial Studies? Towards the Transnational Study of Race and Nation.” Essays and Studies 52 (1999): 1-35.

Cooppan, Vilashini. “World Literature and Global Theory: Comparative Literature for the New Millenium.” Symploke 9.1-2 (2001): 15-44. [Expanded Academic ASAP]
(describes the thinking behind a new required 2-semester course on “world literature” for a track focusing on world literature and film in the undergraduate literature program at Yale; emphasizes “globalized reading” as an approach to canonical Western works as well as the use of genre as the basis for cross-cultural pairings of works to extend the syllabus to works from traditions outside the Western world)

Coutinho, Eduardo F., ed. Fronteiras Imaginadas: Cultura nacional/Teoria Internacional. Rio de Janeiro: Aeroplano, 2001.

Crawford, Robert. Devolving English Literature. 2nd edn. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2000.

Culler, Jonathan. “Comparability.” World Literature Today 69.2 (1995): 268-70.

Curl, James Stevens. Egyptomania: The Egyptian Revival: A Recurring Theme in the History of Taste. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1994.

Dasenbrock, Reed Way. "Intelligibility and Meaningfulness in Multicultural Literature in English." PMLA 102 (1987): 10-19.

Dasenbrock, Reed Way. “The Multicultural West.” Dissent (1991). [excerpt rpt. in Writing About Diversity. Ed. Irene L. Clark. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994. 183-89]

Dasenbrock, Reed Way. “English Department Geography: Interpreting the MLA Bibliography.”Pedagogy Is Politics: Literary Theory and Critical Teaching. Eds. Maria-Regina Kecht. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1992. 193-214.

Dharwadker, Vinay. "The Internationalization of Literatures." New National and Post-Colonial Literatures. An Introduction. Ed. Bruce King. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1996. 59-77.

Dharwadker, Vinay. “Introduction: Cosmpolitanism in Its Time and Place.” Cosmopolitan Geographies: New Locations in Literature and Culture. Ed. Vinay Dharwadker. New York: Routledge, 2001. 1-13.
Rejects both a completely abstract approach to cosmopolitanism (treating it as “a dehistoricized and delocalized ‘ideological space’”) and one that limits its understanding of cosmopolitanism to the version of cosmopolitanism elaborated in the context of European modernism. Dharwadker argues for a more context-specific view of diverse cosmopolitanisms, stretching in time from antiquity (the conception of the Buddhist sangha, ca.500 BCE.; the Stoic conception, ca.300 BCE to 200 CE) and the middle ages (the Neolatin culture of Europe or the Arabic-Persian culture of much of Asia in the centuries before Western domination) to the present (the cosmpolitanism of European modernism, of course, but also, for example, that of the Chinese mercantile diaspora in Southeast Asia) (passim.), and extending in space far beyond the confines of “the cosmopolitan discourse that has flowed out of [Europe] without flowing out of its reach” (5). He emphasizes the diversity of cosmopolitanisms within a given context, also, rather than simply viewing it as part of a nationalism-internationalism dyad. In relation to modern India, for example, he argues that there is a ruralized cosmopolitanism (exemplified by Gandhi) and an urbanized cosmopolitanism (exemplified by Nehru), each of which intersected with nationalist and colonialist stances in particular ways (8).

Dharwadker, Vinay, ed. Cosmopolitan Geographies: New Locations in Literature and Culture. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Essays from the English Institute, 1998. Includes pieces by Bruce Robbins, Robert R. Edwards, David Harvey, Sharon Marcus, Pheng Cheah, Una Chaudhuri, and Kwame Anthony Appiah, aside from Dharwadker’s introduction.

Dimock, Wai Chee. “Literature for the Planet.” PMLA 116.1 (2001): 173-88.

Dingwaney, Anuradha and Carol Maier. “Translation as a Method for Cross-Cultural Teaching.”Between Languages and Cultures: Translation and Cross-Cultural Texts. Eds. Dingwaney and Maier. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1995. 303-19.

Dingwaney, Anuradha and Carol Maier, eds. Between Languages and Cultures: Translation and Cross-Cultural Texts. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1993.

Fischer-Lichte, E., J. Riley, and M. Gissenwherer, eds. The Dramatic Touch of Difference: Theater, Own and Foreign. Tubingen: Gunter Narr, 1990.

Friedman, Edward. “World Culture, ‘Global for Millenia’: Scholar Supports Eclectic Curriculum.” L & S Magazine (Winter 1992).

Friedman, Susan Stanford. Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1998.

Gilbert, Helen and Joanne Tompkins. Post-Colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Godzich, Wlad. “Emergent Literatures and the Field of Comparative Literature.” The Comparative Perspective on Literature. Eds. Clayton Koelb and Susan Noakes. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1988. 18-36.

Goldberg, David Theo and Ato Quayson, eds. Relocating Postcolonialism. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

Gunn, Giles. “Introduction: Globalizing Literary Studies.” PMLA 116 (2001): 16-31. [JSTOR]
(“How have globalizing tendencies in the discipline, insofar as they are present, contributed to the remapping of literary studies not just in the modern era but in all periods of literary studies?What new topics, issues, and problems has the globalization of literary studies, wherever it has occurred, brought into critical discussion and, just as assuredly, kept out of it?How have tendencies to globalize literary studies been assisted, challenged, or thwarted by specific critical methodologies?What influence have such globalizing tendencies had on revising inherited notions not only of the literary and the aesthetic but also of the cultural and the historical?What impact have they had on the reconceptualization of literature’s relation with other expressive media, such as film, photography, television, and the Internet, and with pursuits like journalism and scholarship?In what specific ways has this new sensitivity to the interconnections among discursive fields and expressive practices, in and across cultures and in and across periods, changed the object of knowledge in literary studies?What problems are involved in associating the reconfiguration of literary study with processes of global restructuring that are by turns demographic, economic, political, environmental, cultural, and social?And what alterations have these developments forced on practices of teaching, research, writing, curricular organization, and departmental administration?” [18-19])

Hannerz, Ulf. Transnational Connections: Culture, People, Places. London: Routledge, 1996.

Harris, Wilson. The Womb of Space: The Cross-Cultural Imagination. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1983.

Hill, John and Pamela Church Gibson, eds. World Cinema: Critical Approaches. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.

Hitchcock, Peter. “Decolonizing (the) English.” South Atlantic Quarterly 100.3 (2001): 749-72.

Holledge, Julie and Joanne Tompkins. Women’s International Performance. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Jameson, Fredric. “Third World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism.”Social Text 15 (1986): 65-88. [JSTOR]

Jameson, Frederic and Masao Miyoshi, eds. The Cultures of Globalization. Durham: Duke UP, 1998.

Jay, Paul. “Beyond Discipline? Globalization and the Future of English.” PMLA116 (2001): 32-47. [JSTOR]

Kadir, Djelal. “Comparative Literature Hinternational.” World Literature Today 69.2 (1995): 245-47.

Kaplan, Alice Yaeger. “On Language Memoir.” Displacements: Cultural Identities in Question. Ed. Angelika Bammer. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1994. 59-70.

Kaplan, Cora. Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement. Durham: Duke UP, 1996.

Kellman, Steven G., ed. Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2003.

Khatibi, Abdelkebir, ed. Du bilinguisme. Paris: Denoël, 1985.

Leung, Yiu-Nam. “Globalization and Localization: A Selected Bibliography.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 24.4 (1997): 1081-87.

Li, David Leiwei. “Introduction: Globalization and the Humanities.” Comparative Literature 53 (2001): special issue on globalization.

Liu, Alan. “Globalizing the Humanities: ‘Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research.’” Humanities Collections 1.1 (1998): 41-56.

Lowe, Lisa and David Lloyd, eds. The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1997.

MacCabe, Colin. "English Literature in a Global Context." English in the World: Teaching and Learning the Language and Literatures. Eds. Randolph Quirk and H.G. Widdowson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985. 37-46, with comments by Nils Erik Enkvist (47-49) and Keith Jones (50-51).

Marranca, Bonnie and Gautum Dasgupta, eds. Interculturalism & Performancce: Writings from PAJ [Performing Arts Journal]. New York: PAJ Publications, 1991.

Mayer, Peter. “National Culture and International Media.” About Books: Five Talks from the Jerusalem International Book Fair. Ed. Zev Birger. Woodstock, NY: Overlook P, 2001. 71-87.

Merryfield, Merry. “Moving the Center of Global Education: From Imperial World Views that Divide the World to Double Consciousness, Contrapuntal Pedagogy, Hybridity, and Cross-Cultural Competence.” Critical Issues in Social Science Research for the 21st Century. Ed. William B. Stanley. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Pub., 2001.

Miller, Christopher. “Literary Studies and African Literature: The Challenge of Intercultural Literacy.” Africa and the Disciplines. Eds. Robert H. Bates and V.Y. Mudimbe. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993. 213-31.

Miller, J. Hillis. “Literary and Cultural Studies in the Transnational University.”“Culture” and the Problem of the Disciplines. Ed. John Carlos Rowe. New York: Columbia UP, 1998. 45-69.

Moore, Gerald. The Chosen Tongue: English Writing in the Tropical World(Harlow: Longman, 1969)

Moretti, Franco. “Conjectures on World Literature.” New Left Review n.s. 1 (2000): 54-68. [available online: http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR23503.shtml ]

(argues the need for a methodology other than close reading if we are to address literature as a planetary system; illustrates his approach with an overview of the spread of the modern novel around the globe as a genre of literary practice in the 19th and 20th centuries)

Moses, Michael Valdez. The Novel and the Globalization of Culture. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995.
reviews:
Begam, Richard. CLIO 27.1 (1997): 109-27. [Expanded Academic ASAP]
GÉrard, Albert S. Modern Philology 94 (1997): 418-22. [JSTOR; Expanded Academic ASAP]

Gorra, Michael. Contemporary Literature 37.3 (1996): 501-08.

Nichols, Bill. “Film Theory and the Revolt Against Master Narratives.” Reinventing Film Studies. Eds. Christine Gledhill and Linda Williams. London: Arnold, 2000. 34-52.
Nichols defines theory as a “historically situated process of conceptualization and generalization” (34), and breaks down theorization about film into three moments, which it shares with modern literary and cultural study (35).In his history, film theory begins with a belief in the correspondence of a work of art to the historical world through “classic historicist assumptions” (35).In the 1960s and 1970s this gives way to a formalist turn, which coincided with the emergence of film studies as a field of academic study.The third, contemporary, moment is a post-structural moment that situates film within larger social processes and is attentive to local and material concepts such as gender, ethnicity, and class rather than abstract generalities such as the Zeitgeist. Nichols then proposes using the concepts of visual culture, representation, and rhetoric as a way of thinking about contemporary directions in film theory, including the place of questions of multiculturalism and identity politics.This essay is relatively abstract, but the attempt to locate changing theories of film in relation to changing social, historical, and political concerns is useful for thinking about how (and why) different kinds of issues have animated theoretical discussions in different historical moments.

Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey, ed. The Oxford History of World Cinema. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996.
reviews:
Anderson, Eric. National Forum 77.4 (1997): 48. [Expanded Academic ASAP]

Pavis, Patrice. Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Pavis, Patrice. Dictionary of the Theatre: Terms, Concepts, and Analysis. Trans. Christine Shantz. Preface Marvin Carlson. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1998. [orig. pub. in French, rev. edn., in 1996.]

Pavis, Patrice, ed. The Intercultural Performance Reader. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Pratt, Mary Louise. “Arts of the Contact Zone.” Profession (1991): 33-40.

Pratt, Mary Louise. “Comparative Literature and Global Citizenship.” Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism. Ed. Charles Bernheimer. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1995. 58-65.
(compelling reflections on the globalization of comparative literature as a discipline, as it struggles to move beyond the European orbit that has been its traditional focus)

Routh, H.V. The Diffusion of English Culture outside England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1941.

Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Vintage, 1994.

Said, Edward. “Globalizing Literary Study.” PMLA 116 (2001): 64-68.

Schwarz, Henry and Richard Dienst, eds. Reading the Shape of the World: Toward an International Cultural Studies. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1996.

Seboek, Thomas. Global Semiotics. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2001.

Shohat, Ella and Robert Stam. Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media. London: Routledge, 1994. Esp. Introduction, 1-13.
This introduction is focused upon the definition of terms such as “Eurocentrism” in a general summary of the methodology used in the book.While the debate within which they situate their work is historically of the mid-nineties, their approach of making connections—in temporal terms, spatial/geographical terms, disciplinary terms, intertextual terms, and conceptual terms (5)—may be useful for thinking about a broader context for “English studies,” or whatever it is that we’re calling what we do now.

Sicherman, Carol. “Revolutionizing the Literature Curriculum at the University of East Africa: Literature and the Soul of the Nation.” Research in African Literatures 29.3 (1998): 129-48. [ABELL]

Sommer, D. “Resistant Texts and Incompetent Readers.” Latin American Literary Review 20 (1990): 104-08.

South Atlantic Quarterly 100.3 (2001): special issue: Anglophone Literatures and Global Culture

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Death of a Discipline. Wellek Library Lectures, 2000. New York: Columbia UP, 2003.

Thumboo, Edwin. “English Literature in a Global Context.” English in the World: Teaching and Learning the Language and Literatures. Eds. Randolph Quirk and H.G. Widdowson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985. 52-60, with comments by Alan Davies (61-63) and Ramón López-Ortega (64-65).

Willinsky, John. Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire’s End. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1998.

Wilson, Rob and Wimal Dissanayake, eds. Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary. Durham: Duke UP, 1996.

Yoshimoto, Mitsuhiro. “The Difficulty of Being Radical: The Discipline of Film Studies and the Postcolonial World.” boundary 2 18.3 (1991): 242-57.Revised and reprinted as “Japanese Cinema in Search of a Discipline.” In Yoshimoto, Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema, 8-49.Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
Yoshimoto offers a critical history of American scholarship on Japanese cinema, which he divides into three phases, roughly corresponding to the 1960s, the 1970s, and the 1980s. He considers how each of these phases constructs Japanese cinema as an object of knowledge, and he focuses on the institutional and disciplinary questions raised by these constructions in the field of film studies.This work provides an interesting case study, but the very specific focus on film studies, and the numerous citations of works in the field may make it more oriented to specialists than a more broadly conceived project might be.

Zabbal, François. “La littérature mondialisée.” La Mondialisation et l’Autonomie: La Méditerranée. Ed. Yassine Essid and William D. Coleman. Vancouver: U of British Columbia P, forthcoming?

Zach, Wolfgang and K. L. Goodwin, ed. Nationalism vs. Internationalism: (Inter)national Dimensions of Literatures in English. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 1996.