Week 1: What is World Literature? (January 12th)

• David Damrosch, “Toward a History of World Literature” (481-495) [2008]

• Franco Moretti, “Conjectures on World Literature” (54-68) [2000] and “More Conjectures” (73-81) [2003]

• Pheng Cheah, “Introduction: Missed Encounters: Cosmopolitanism, World Literature, and Postcoloniality” (1-19) [2016]

Week 2: World Literature and Literary Sociology (January 19th)

• Pierre Bourdieu, “The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed” (29-73) [1983]

• Pascale Casanova, “Principles of a World History of Literature” (9-44) [1999]

• Ann Steiner, “World Literature and the Book Market” (316-324) [2011]

• Gisèle Sapiro, “The Transnational Literary Field between (Inter)-nationalism and Cosmopolitanism” (481-504) [2020]

Week 3: Centers and Peripheries (January 26th)

• Aamir Mufti, “Orientalism and World Literature” (458-493) [2010]

• Pieter Vermeulen and Amélie Hurkens, “The Americanization of World Literature?” (1-18) [2019]

• “Introduction” and “Production: On White Publishing” from Richard Jean So, Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction (1-66) [2020]

Week 4: Global Englishes (February 2nd)

• *Buchi Emechta, The Joys of Motherhood: A Novel (226 pages) [1979]*

• Katherine Hallemeier, “The Empires Write Back: The Language of Postcolonial Nigerian Literature and the United States of America” (123-138) [2019]

Week 5: Translation, Writing, and Orality (February 9th)

• *Mariama Bâ, So Long a Letter (90 pages) [1979]*

• Tobias Warner, “How Mariama Bâ Became World Literature: Translation and the Legibility of Feminist Critique” (1239-1255) [2016]

• Caroline Levine, “The Great Unwritten: World Literature and the Effacement of Orality” (217-237) [2013]

Week 6: Postcolonial Authorship (February 16th)

• *Salman Rushdie, East, West (224 pages) [1994]*

• Sarah Brouillette, “Postcolonial Writers and the Global Literary Marketplace” (44-75) [2007]

Week 7: Booming Markets (February 23rd)

• *Mohammed Hanif, A Case of Exploding Mangoes (323 pages) [2009]*

• Roanne L. Kantor, “A Case of Exploding Markets: Latin American and South Asian Literary ‘Booms’” (466-486) [2018]

Week 8: The Global Book Industry (March 2nd)

• *Ling Ma, Severance (304 pages) [2018]*

• Dan N. Sinykin, “The Conglomerate Era: Publishing, Authorship, and Literary Form, 1965-2007” (462-491) [2017]

SPRING BREAK (No Class March 9th)

Week 9: Cultural Commodification (March 16th)

• *Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season (224 pages) [2020]*

• Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado, “Commodifying Mexico: On American Dirt and the Cultural Politics of a Manufactured Bestseller” (371-393) [2021]

Week 10: Literary Prizes (March 23rd)

• *Percival Everett, Erasure (272 pages) [2001]*

• James English, The Economy of Prestige, “Prizes and the Study of Culture” (1-14) and “Prizes and the Politics of World Culture” (297-320) [2005]

• Due: Paper Abstract

Week 11: Literary Festivals (March 30th)

• *Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (191 pages) [2008]*

• Sushil Sivaram, “(Re)Staging the Postcolonial in the World: The Jaipur Literature Festival and the Pakistani Novel” (333-356) [2019]

• Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires, “Megativity and Miniaturization at the Frankfurt Book Fair” [2020]

Week 12: UNESCO (April 6th)

• Tayeb Salih, “The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid” (1-20) [1966]

• Sarah Brouillette, from UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary, “Introduction” (1-19) and “Cultural Policy and the Perils of Development” (55-75) [2019]

Week 13: The MFA Program (April 13th)

• Nam Le, “Love and Honor and Pity and Price and Compassion and Sacrifice” (3-28) [2008]

• Mark McGurl, from The Program Era (1-74) [2009]

• Due: Expanded and revised proposal with bibliography.

Week 14: The Syllabus (April 20th)

• Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis (341 pages) [2007]

• Markella Rutherford and Peggy Levitt, “Who’s on the Syllabus? World Literature According to the US Pedagogical Canon” (606-629) [2020]

Week 15: Conference (April 27th)

• Conference presentations to be delivered during class time.