Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • World literature and antiquity: classical surrogates in W.E.B. Du Bois's black belt
  • World literature in hiding: Zora Neale Hurston, biographical criticism, and African diasporic vernacular culture
  • Whiteness and world literature: Alejo Carpentier, racial difference, and narrative creolization
  • Dialectics of world literature: Derek Walcott between intimacy and iconicity
  • Material histories of world literature: intertextuality and Maryse Conde's historical novels
  • "Healing" world literature: Toni Morrison's Conflicts of interest
  • Conclusion.