AcknowledgmentsAmerican Literature as World Literature: An IntroductionJeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston-Victoria, USA)Part 1: World, Worldings, Worldliness1. American Literature and Its Shadow Worlds: Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Specters of WorldlinessPaul Giles (University of Sydney, Australia)2. Worldings of American Literature Off the Cultural RadarLawrence Buell (Harvard University, USA)3. Who Needs American Literature? From Emerson to Marcus and SollorsJeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston-Victoria, USA)Part 2: Literature, Geopolitics, Globalization4. Worlds of AmericanaPeter Hitchcock (City University of New York, USA)5. Political Serials: Tanner ’88 to House of CardsEmily Apter (New York University, USA)6. Weltliterature? Mapping American Literature after Territorialism: Manifesto for a 21st-Century Critical AgendaChristian Moraru (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA)7. Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy in American World LiteratureJonathan Arac (University of Pittsburgh, USA)Part 3: Experience, Poetics, New Worlds8. Whitman’s Polyvocal Poetic Revolution: Equality and Empire in New World LiteratureGabriel Rockhill (Villanova University, USA)9. Experience to Experiment, SIgns to Signals: Towards Flusser’s New WorldAaron Jaffe (Florida State University, USA)10. Un-Making American Literature: Mind-Making Fictions of the LiteraryAlan Singer (Temple University, USA)Part 4: History and the American Novel11. Last American Stories and Their Adventurous SequelsRobert Caserio (Penn State University, USA)12. Transhuman Poetics and American World Literature: James Baldwin’s Demon of History in Just Above My HeadDaniel O’Hara (Temple University, USA)13. The Pathos of History: Trauma in Siri Hustvedt’s The Sorrows of an AmericanJean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Notes on ContributorsIndex

A dynamic anthology with thirteen essays that push beyond traditional comparative literature geographies and genres to ask how American literature is uniquely worldly… An important contribution to a burgeoning field of global American studies, American Literature as World Literature deserves to be widely read.

Literatures as World Literature welcomes new and creative reading methodologies for engaging with the category of world literature. The series acknowledges that the world as object of study has been defined in recent decades by a set of overarching environmental concerns, ongoing geo-political pressures, and realignments of both hard and soft-power dynamics that together dramatically shift our understanding of world literature as a literary category. With this in mind, the series attends to language, form, medium and theme in relation to literary texts and authors in their world-literary dimensions. The series recognizes that world literature grows out of creative and critical reading practices that empower and deepen our understanding of scholarly and educational approaches to a particular author, genre, art form, or theory in diverse ways. We are interested in approaches that interrogate conceptions of the world within a range of literary considerations including aesthetic, geographical, and historical. It will also be important to discover the further reaches of this field in forms of largely oral storytelling still practiced today – often making use of emerging media platforms – with its roots traceable to pre-modernity. In short, we invite scholars and practitioners who are willing to move outward from their own areas of specialization to engage in critical inquiry that mobilizes the polyphonic, multiperspectival, multimedial term of world literature in order to discover something novel and expansive about their area of study. To submit a proposal, please contact Amy.Martin@bloomsbury.com or the series editors: Thomas O. Beebee (tob@psu.edu) or Sofia Ahlberg (sofia.ahlberg@engelska.uu.se). For more information, see www.bloomsbury.com/discover/bloomsbury-academic/authors/submitting-a-book-proposal.