The past decade has seen a resurgence of scholarship on world literature. The best-selling successes of "Great Books" arguments contained in Azar Nafisi's memoir "Reading Lolita in Tehran" and in Dai Sijie's novel "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress" seem to mirror, on the popular front, this scholarly return to the question of world…

Investigates a broad question in light of the author's own background: what is it that educators think they are doing while teaching postcolonial literature? Investigates an analogy between postcolonial and gay and lesbian studies by looking at the author's reading and teaching approach to Mariama Ba's novel "So Long a Letter." (TB)

The Goshen College International Literature course is organized around the coming-of-age theme. (JH)

Examines testimonies of teachers to determine how and by whom a teacher/scholar's authority is defined in the teaching of texts of different cultures. Looks at how teachers make themselves invisible and discusses some of the ways in which pedagogy and scholarship demand or allow for this (in)visibility through concealment or disclosure of personal…

Explores two questions raised by the tendency to treat works in translation as though they were written originally in English: (1) the political and cultural costs of this approach, such as what knowledges or practices it makes possible or eliminates; and (2) what pedagogy can be developed to address the issue of translation. (TB)

Addresses the evolution of the most authoritative and widely used textbook in world literature courses in the United States, "The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces." Questions if the "Norton Anthology" has provided educators who are committed to the teaching of world literature from non-Eurocentric perspectives with a…

Homosexuals are America's largest single "ethnic group," and their literary tradition should be represented in curricula and textbooks. (JH)