World Literature in Motion : Institution, Recognition, Location.

Intro -- Foreword -- Introduction: A Manifesto for Critical World Literature Studies -- Section 1: Postcolonial Institutions -- The Zimbabwe International Book Fair and the Idea of Book Development -- Athol Fugard as "Regional Writer": Oxford University Press, Three Crowns, and Three Port Elizabeth Plays -- The Politics of Censorship: The Making of The Penguin Book of South African Verse (1968) -- Penguin's People: The Information Research Department and British Publishing -- Section 2: Recognition through Prizes -- V. S. Naipaul's Booker Prize for In a Free State -- Resituating the Author: Arundhati Roy, the Booker Prize and the Rhetoric of Authenticity -- The Caine Prize for "African Writing": A Continental Reading and Rewarding -- The Failure of the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Politics of Recognition -- Section 3: Minor Locations -- Minor Literature, Minor Prizes: The Case of Mauritius -- Cypriot Literatures and the World: Language, Nationalism, and the bildungsroman, 1960-1974 -- "The Page Becomes a Tape Recorder": The Development of an Oral Literary Aesthetic through Caribbean Radio -- Section 4: Translations beyond the Anglophone -- Making a World of Literary Relations: The Representation of Indian Literature in the Chinese Journal Yiwen/Shijie wenxue, 1953‐1962 -- The Curious Case of Exotic Translations in the South‐East Balkans -- The Arabian Nights in Chinese and English Translations: Differing Patterns of Cultural Encounter and World Literature -- Kuunmong in Translations: A Visual Linkage Between the Past and the Present -- Afterword -- Notes on the Contributors -- Acknowledgement.

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