Di Leo, J: American Literature as World Literature

Acknowledgments
American Literature as World Literature: An Introduction
Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston-Victoria, USA)

Part 1: World, Worldings, Worldliness
1. American Literature and Its Shadow Worlds: Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Specters of Worldliness
Paul Giles (University of Sydney, Australia)
2. Worldings of American Literature Off the Cultural Radar
Lawrence Buell (Harvard University, USA)
3. Who Needs American Literature? From Emerson to Marcus and Sollors
Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston-Victoria, USA)

Part 2: Literature, Geopolitics, Globalization
4. Worlds of Americana
Peter Hitchcock (City University of New York, USA)
5. Political Serials: Tanner '88 to House of Cards
Emily Apter (New York University, USA)
6. Weltliterature? Mapping American Literature after Territorialism: Manifesto for a 21st-Century Critical Agenda
Christian Moraru (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA)
7. Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy in American World Literature
Jonathan Arac (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Part 3: Experience, Poetics, New Worlds
8. Whitman's Polyvocal Poetic Revolution: Equality and Empire in New World Literature
Gabriel Rockhill (Villanova University, USA)
9. Experience to Experiment, SIgns to Signals: Towards Flusser's New World
Aaron Jaffe (Florida State University, USA)
10. Un-Making American Literature: Mind-Making Fictions of the Literary
Alan Singer (Temple University, USA)

Part 4: History and the American Novel
11. Last American Stories and Their Adventurous Sequels
Robert Caserio (Penn State University, USA)
12. Transhuman Poetics and American World Literature: James Baldwin's Demon of History in Just Above My Head
Daniel O'Hara (Temple University, USA)
13. The Pathos of History: Trauma in Siri Hustvedt's The Sorrows of an American
Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Notes on Contributors
Index

Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA. His books include Higher Education under Late Capitalism: Identity, Conduct, and the Neoliberal Condition (2017), Dead Theory: Derrida, Death, and the Afterlife of Theory (Bloomsbury, 2016), Corporate Humanities in Higher Education: Moving Beyond the Neoliberal Academy (2014), and Turning the Page: Book Culture in the Digital Age (2013).