Politics of Cross-Cultural Reading: Tagore, Ben Jelloun and Fo in English (Paperback)

Contents: Reading World Literature in English ? ≪The Universal Possession of Mankind≫? The Discursive Politics of World Literature ? Rhetorical Power and Symbolic Capital: The Middle Zone of Literary Space ? At Home in World Literature? Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home and the World ? ≪I now lay before you the book, the inkwell, and the pens≫: Tahar Ben Jelloun’s The Sand Child in English-Language Criticism ? Who is Afraid of Dario Fo? Translation and Adaptation Strategies in English-Language Versions of Accidental Death of an Anarchist ? Why Investigate Acts of Cross-Cultural Reading? ? Untapped Resources: A Provisional Bibliography on Tahar Ben Jelloun’s The Sand Child in French.