Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction: The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature: The mobilizing potential of transcultural World Literature: Magdalena Pfalzgraf and Hanna Teichler
Foreword: On excentric proximity: Some thoughts for Frank Homi K. Bhabha
Part One Theories and concepts
1 'World Literature'? A perspective from the Centre, a perspective from the edge: Michael Chapman
2 Traversal, transversal: A poetics of migrancy: Robert J C. Young
3 On transcultural globalectics: Ngugi meets Schulze-Engler: Tanaka Chidora
Part Two Transgressive kinships
4 Not-so-happy families: Durell, Goodall and the myth of Africa: Graham Huggan
5 The 'makings of a diasporic self': Transcultural life writing, diaspora and modernity in Stuart Hall's Familiar Stranger: Katja Sarkowsky
6 Toward re-centring the senescent: Pedagogical possibilities of Anglophone short fiction: Mala Pandurang and Jinal Baxi
7 Notes from a classroom: Teaching Anglophone transculturality amidst environmental devastations:
Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell and Michelle Stork
Part Three Transversal readings
8 Transculturality and the law: Witi Ihimaera's The Whale Rider and a river with personhood: Mita Banerjee
9 'Mobility at large': Anglophone travel writing as a medium of transcultural communication in a global context: Nadia Butt
10 The transcultural imaginary: South Asian writing from Aotearoa New Zealand:
Janet Wilson
11 Passages to India: Jewish exiles between privilege and persecution Flora Veit-Wild
Afterword: 'Objects in the rear-view mirror': Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

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