The 2019 congress of the International Comparative Literature Association attracted many hundreds of scholars from all around the world to Macau. This volume contains a modest selection of papers to discuss the four hottest fields of the discipline: the future of comparison, the position of national and diaspora literature in the context of globalization, the importance of translation, and the concepts of world literature. The contributions cover huge geographical and cultural areas, but pay special attention to the connections between Western (both American and European) and Asian (especially Indian and East-Asian) literatures. The literatures of the world might be different but they are also connected.

Table of Contents:
Preface Part 1 Comparative Literature 1 Introduction  Ning Wang 2 Aphorism in Modern Japanese Literature: Elements for a Brief History of the Reception of a Foreign Literary Genre  Marie-Noëlle Beauvieux 3 Female Narrative as a Strategy in Kingston’s and Amy Tan’s Fiction  Aimin Cheng 4 Between Waves and Trees: Digital Humanities and Comparative Reading of Texts  Bernard Franco 5 Two Faces of A.K. Hasheem in Colombo: Intelligent Tourist Agents Navigating the Waves of Anglo-Japanese Relations  Yorimitsu Hashimoto 6 Performance as Act: A New Trend in Intercultural Theatre Studies  Chengzhou He 7 Germinal and Minas De San Francisco: Journey(s) of “Disquiet” to the Center of the Earth and the Human in Émile Zola and Fernando Namora  Odete Jubilado 8 The Drama Thunderstorm by Cao Yu and Its Presentation in South Korea  Linjie Niu and Lyu Xin Part 2 National Literatures and Diaspora Literature 9 Introduction  Anfeng Sheng 10 The Progressive Movement and Some Aspects of the Debate over Bangla Poetry  Kunal Chattopadhyay 11 A Study on Novels Dealing with Japanese-Korean Romances or Marriages during the Late Japanese Colonial Period  Huiying Liu 12 The Role of Poetry and Voice of the Oppressed: Bengali and Telugu  Prabuddha Ghosh 13 Spatial Narrative in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan  Xiaoye Dong 14 Experience-Oriented Reading of Literature versus Literary Criticism  Anders Pettersson 15 Queering the Brazilian White Patriarchal Home: An Improbable Room/ a Deauthorized Voice  Rita Terezinha Schmidt 16 Culinary Representations of Vitality and Heroism in Mo Yan’s Red Sorghum  Mingwen Xiao 17 Embodying the Chimera: Cultural Identity and Gazing in Amy Tan’s the Hundred Secret Senses  Chunfang Yi Part 3 Translation Studies 18 Introduction  Yifeng Sun 19 Translating the Untranslatable: Foreign Otherness and Cross-Cultural Readability A Case Study of Wang Rongpei’s Translation of The Peony Pavilion  Kexin Du 20 “Nature” in Wordsworth’s Poems Translated in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan  Ching-Wen Wu 21 The Influence of Translated Poetry on the Occurrence of Modernity in Modern Chinese Poetry  Hui Xiong Part 4 World Literature 22 Introduction  Lucia Boldrini 23 Literature: A World History—the View from Europe  Theo D’haen 24 Responsiveness to Comparison  Fatima Festić 25 Hungarian Literature as World Literature  Péter Hajdu 26 “Cosmopolitics”: Derrida on Cosmopolitanism and Sovereignty  Nick Mansfield 27 A Triple Configuration: Comparative Literature, World Literature, and Single-Language Literature  Harish Trivedi 28 China and World Literature Studies: Re-Orient?  Theo D’haen Index