Introduction / Ali Behdad and Dominic Thomas
Part I. Roadmaps. A discipline of tolerance / Rey Chow
Why compare? / David Ferris
Method and congruity : the odious business of comparative literature / David Palumbo-Liu
Comparisons, world literature, and the common denominator / Haun Saussy
Comparative literature in America : attempt at a genealogy / Kenneth Surin
Part II. Theoretical directions. The poiein of secular criticism / Stathis Gourgouris
VAnishing horizons : problems in the comparison of China and the West / Eric Hayot
Art and literature in the liquid modern age : on Richard Wollheim, Zygmunt Bauman and Yves Michaud / Efraín Kristal
A literary object's contextual life / Michael Lucey
The theater of comparative literature / Sharon Marcus
Part III. Disciplinary intersections. What pictures tell us about the letter : visual and literary practices in Latin America / Jorge Coronado
If there's a text in this class, where did it come from? Or, What does Marilyn Monroe have to do with The sorrows of young man Werther? / Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller
Comparative literature in the age of digital humanities : on possible futures for a discipline / Todd Presner
Comparing pain : theoretical explorations of suffering and working towards the particular / Zoë Norridge
Comparativism, transfers, entangled history : sociological perspectives on literature / Gisèle Sapiro
Part IV. Linguistic trajectories. Orphaned language : traumatic crossings in literature and history / Cathy Caruth
Contested grammars : comparative literature, translation, and the challenge of locality / Simon Gikandi
Comparative literature and the global languagescape / Mary Louise Pratt
Persian incursions : the transnational dynamics of Persian literature / Nasrin Rahimieh
Rudimentariness as home / Mireille Rosello
Part V. Postcolonial mobilities. Afro-European studies : emerging fields and new directions / Allison Crumly Deventer and Dominic Thomas
The comparative and the relational : meditations on racial method / David Theo Goldberg
Kidnapped narratives : mobility without autonomy and the nation/novel analogy / Deborah Jenson
Counterpoint and double critique in Deward Said and Abdelkebir Khatibi : a transcolonial comparison / Françoise Lionnet
How French studies became transnational; or postcolonialism as comparatism / David Murphy
Towards a planetary reading of postcolonial and American imaginative eco-graphies / Sangeeta Ray
Part VI. Global connection. Terrestrial humanism : Edward W. Said and the politics of world literature / Emily Apter
Logics and contexts of circulation / Brian T. Edwards
"Worlds in collision" : the languages and locations of world literature / Charles Forsdick
The trouble with world literature / Graham Huggan.