In:Beyond Babel: Scholarly organizations and the study of languages and literatures
Edited by Tom Clark
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 18] 2022
► pp. 233–240
Index
Published online: 20 October 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.18.index
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.18.index
A
- Abe language,53
- Abrams, M.H.,28
- Åbo Akademi University,157
- Académie Française,207
- Acheampong, General I. K.,51
- Adams, Jennifer L.,163
- Adekunle, Mobolaji,50
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi,65 (n31)
- Africa,7, 9
- Christianization of,67
- colonization of,43
- languages of,43, 44, 48, 56, 57
- political instability in,57
- scholars of linguistics in,54
- African Academy of Languages (ACALAN),55
- African Union, the,55
- Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters,59, 68, 70, 71
- history of,69
- membership structure and members of,60, 69, 71
- mission of,70, 72
- Agder, University of,69
- Agheyisi, Rebecca,48
- Agni language,53
- Ahoua, Firmin,52, 53, 57
- Typologie et Documentation des Langues en Afrique de l’Ouest,53
- Akan language,45, 51
- Asante Twi dialect of,51
- de facto national language of Ghana,51
- Akinlabi, Akinbiyi,48
- Alighieri, Dante,84
- American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA),37, 174
- American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS),25
- Amharic language,50
- Anderson, Benedict,61 (n8)
- Ansre, Gilbert,48, 50
- Apter, Emily,79, 83, 84, 86
- Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability,83
- Arab Spring,215
- Arendt, Hannah,212
- Armstrong, Robert,48, 49
- Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina (ALFAL),174
- Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS),174
- Association for Rhetoric and Communication in Southern Africa (ARCSA),174
- Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiane (AISLLI),174
- Aten language,49
- Attwell, Derek,75
- Austen, Jane,74
- Australia,4, 5, 6, 202
- Australian Academy of the Humanities,204
- Mapping the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences,204
- Australian, The,202
- Australian Universities Languages and Literature Association (AULLA),5, 174, 207
- Averill, Roger,203
- Awobuluyi, Oladele,48
B
- Babel, Tower of1, 2, 5, 8, 11, 23, 214
- Bakhtin, Mikhail,157
- Bamgbose, Dr. Ayo,46, 48
- Bambara language,45
- Bangkok ,14
- Bantu languages,55
- Baoule language,53
- Basho, Matsuo,105
- Beecroft, Alexander,79, 82
- Beijing,39
- Foreign Studies University of,124
- University (formerly Peking University),131
- Benade, Leon,172
- Bentham, Jeremy,61
- “Benthamization”,75
- Beowulf2, 62, 196
- Bergson, Henri,103
- Bete language,53
- Beyond Babel: Scholarly Organizations and the Study of Languages and Literatures,218
- Bharat, Dr. Meenakshi,74
- Bible, the1, 65, 98, 104, 107
- New Testament,109
- Old Testament,213
- Bing, Professor Wu,124
- Birus, Hendrik,84
- Bloom, Harold,81, 95
- Bobbitt, P,196
- Bodomo, Adams,7, 8, 50, 53, 57, 216
- Bolton, Edmund,20, 21, 22
- Book of Songs (Shi jing 诗经),144
- Boon, Nadine,89
- Borch, Adam,10, 217
- Bouqieaux, Luc,49
- Bourdieu, Pierre,214
- Braidotti, Rosi,63, 67
- Brathwaite, Edward,28
- Brasilia,13, 14, 16
- Brazil,143
- Brett, Judith,205, 206
- British Comparative Literature Association,36
- Broomans, Petra,9, 90, 214, 215
- Brosnahan, Frank,49
- Bruna, Dick,92
- Nijntje in de Sneeuw,92
- Buck, Pearl S.,121, 126
- Good Earth, the,121
- Buddha,104
- Bunyan, John65 (n30)
- Grace Abounding,65 (n30)
- Burke, Kenneth,27
- Butler, Judith,29
- Byrne, Catrine Søndergaard,190
C
- Cai, Li (Lily),10, 186, 196, 218
- Cambridge Analytica data scandal,190, 191
- Cameroon,52
- conflict in,52
- languages of,52
- Canada,202
- Canadian Comparative Literature Association,37
- Cape Town, University of,177
- capitalism,85, 133
- and “world literature”,85
- Carr, Professor Karen,80
- Carter, Angela,63
- Heroes and Villains,63
- Casanova, Pascale,79, 82, 84, 85, 86, 92
- Charles, King I of England,20
- Charles, King II of England,22
- Charrière, Isabelle de,35
- Lettres de Mistriss Henley,35
- Chen, Yi,83
- Children’s Literature Association (ChLA),174, 208
- children’s literature,14, 92, 94, 170, 184
- China,9, 10, 16, 94, 114, 116, 119, 148
- Communist Party of (CCP),117, 128, 131, 132, 133, 136
- Cultural Revolution,114, 121, 122, 132, 148
- development of written culture in,84
- education in ,120, 127, 134, 145, 187
- history of,114, 117, 120, 121, 128, 130, 131, 133
- humanities in,129, 132, 135, 136, 137, 147, 187
- learned societies and/or scholarly organization of,10, 129, 130, 138, 139, 140, 142, 147, 218
- literature of,82, 116, 119, 122, 128
- non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in,141
- poetry of,80, 81, 83, 126
- and racism,125
- Reform and Opening Up,113, 114, 121, 122, 126, 127, 128, 132
- studies of languages and literature in,10, 119, 120, 122, 124, 125
- translation in,87
- and the United States,12, 122, 125, 126, 144
- China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS),115, 132, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 146
- Chinese Association for the Study of American Literature (CASAL),10, 114, 115, 116, 120, 122
- aims of,125, 126
- conferences of,121, 123, 124
- Chinese Association for the Study of Foreign Literature (CASFL),10, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117
- presidents of,119
- New Literary History of the United States in four volumes (四卷本《新编美国文学史》),125
- publications of,122, 125, 126
- presidents of,121
- Chinese language,119, 130
- Chomsky, Noam,56, 165, 201
- Churchill, Winston,19
- Christaller, Johann G.,43
- Christianity,22, 65 (n29), 104, 110
- in Africa,67
- Christian literature,97, 106, 108, 109, 110
- in France,98
- in Japan,98
- Protestantism,21
- Roman Catholicism,21, 65, 98
- Chumbow, Beban,50
- Clark, Tom,11, 76
- Climate Change,213
- Coetzee, J.M,65, 66, 67, 75, 218
- Disgrace,215
- Elizabeth Costello,65, 67
- colonialism,6, 85, 202
- British,43, 52, 74, 120, 143
- decolonization,85, 131
- French,43, 52, 52 (n20)
- German,52 (n20)
- literature as anti-colonial practice,61, 74
- post-colonialism,38, 67, 202
- Commission Internationale d’Histoire Littéraire Moderne (CIHLM)13, 19
- Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession (CSWP),32, 33, 34
- Antifeminism in the Academy,33
- communication,2, 151, 214
- electronic,78
- intercultural,94
- international,59
- and language,24
- Comparative Critical Studies,37
- comparative literature,38, 41, 97, 103, 109, 110, 126
- Comparative Literature Studies,39
- Comparatively Queer,38
- Confessions of a Poisoner, Written by Herself,35
- Confucianism,82, 104, 126, 130, 144
- Conversation, the,206
- Cornell, Ezra,68
- cosmopolitanism,1, 119, 140
- Côte d’Ivoire,52, 57
- languages of,52, 53
- government policy on language learning,52
- Cotton, Sir Robert,20
- Covid-19 pandemic,9, 12, 213
- critical race studies,38
D
- Dagaare-Waale language,51
- Dagbane language,51
- Damrosch, David,79
- Daoism,126
- Day, Martin S.,61
- Dazhao, Li,130
- Delafosse, Maurice,44
- Delhi,14, 16
- Derrida, Jacques,36, 40
- dialogue analysis,10
- Dierkes-Thrun, Petra,38
- Diogenes,169, 185
- Dioula language,53
- Djite, Paulin,52
- Douglas, Virginie,170
- Drayton, Michael,20
- Duan, Feng,9, 90
- Dunham, Rebecca,32
- Duxiu, Chen,130
E
- Eagleton, Terry,28
- Edmund the Martyr, King,211
- Egypt,84
- Eichmann, Adolf,212
- El-Daksh, Dina Abdel Salam,160
- Eliot, T.S,126
- Ellmann, Richard,106
- Elsberg, Marc,59, 74
- Helix,59
- Elugbe, Ben,53
- Typologie et Documentation des Langues en Afrique de l’Ouest,53
- Emenanjo, Nolue,50
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo,121, 126
- Engels, Friedrich,79
- English Institute, the,25, 26, 27
- and feminism,40
- as “learned society”,28, 40
- English, James,87
- The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value,87
- English language14, 20, 5, 52 (n20), 200
- as lingua franca,76, 216
- translations into,85
- Erasmus, Desiderius,66, 67, 140
- Espagne, Michel,87
- Etulo language,49
- Europe,9, 16
- European Society for the Study of English, the (ESSE),174, 208
- Euro-centrism,16, 35, 67, 84, 93, 215, 216
- Evans, Nicholas,5
- Ewe language,45, 51
F
- Fan, Lu,115
- Faulkner, William,98, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110
- feminism,8, 28, 30, 81
- in China,131
- and critical inquiry,35
- Fédération Internationale de Langues et Littératures Modernes (FILLM)1, 4, 5, 8, 10, 12, 147, 156, 174, 207
- aims of,16, 24, 76, 217
- book series,18, 19, 21, 169
- and Chinese language,18
- Congresses of,13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 22, 36, 74, 209
- constitution of,18, 174
- cultural diversity,74
- English language and,14, 15, 16, 18
- funding,15, 17, 20
- and gender,26
- history of,13, 15, 16, 22, 216
- internal organisation,16
- member organisations of,15, 17, 20, 25, 74, 170, 173, 174, 189, 197
- on-line presence,170, 176, 177, 178, 183
- Symposium celebrating the 90th Anniversary of,7, 110, 171, 175 (n2), 213
- Fiedler, Leslie,29
- Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters,19
- Fisiak, Jacek,72
- Ford Foundation, the,54, 55, 126
- France,106
- Franklin, Bruce,28
- French language,14, 52, 52 (n20)
- Frye, Northrop,28
- Fu, Du,8, 116 (n6)
- Fuheng, Wu,115, 116, 117, 121
- Fulfulde language,45
- Fuss, Diana,29
G
- Ga-Dangme language,51
- Gandhi,143
- Gang, Zhu,120
- Garber, Marjorie,27, 28, 29, 40
- gender,36, 216
- as discipline of study,36
- and economic precarity,33
- and literature,30
- and pedagogy,35
- and scholarly organizations,26
- and translation,39
- genre,78, 82, 88, 89, 93, 95
- gender and,37
- historical development of,91
- popular,94
- science fiction,59
- German language,14
- Germany,37
- Ghana,46, 48, 51
- government policy on language learning,51
- languages of,51
- University of,45
- Global Rhetoric Society (GRS),174, 208
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,79, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 109, 116 (n6)
- Gokana language,49
- Gonja language,51
- Greenberg, Joseph,44, 46
- Gregory the Great, Saint,65 (n29)
- Grein, Marion,167
- Groningen, University of,88, 90, 94
- Gubar, Susan,28, 29, 30
- Guere language,53
- Gurenne language,51
- Gustav, King III of Sweden,21
H
- Ha, Marie-Paul,37
- Ha, Trinh T Minh,36
- haiku,105
- Haiping, Liu,125
- Halden,14, 15
- Hall, Geoff,10, 186, 196, 218
- Harare,14
- Hardy, Michael,27, 29
- Hardy, Thomas,29
- Harpham, G,143
- Texts, People, and/or (Self-)Understanding,143
- Hartman, Geoffrey,29, 40
- Harvard University,27, 40, 115 (n3), 120
- Haskins, Charles Homer,62, 63
- Hauge, Dr. Halvor Vegard,69
- Hausa language,43, 45, 51
- Hawking, Stephen,68
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel,125
- Scarlet Letter, the,125
- Hedberg, Andreas,9
- Hegel, GWF,103
- Heidegger, Martin,103
- Heidelberg University,116 (n6)
- Heilbrun, Carolyn,27, 29, 30
- Representation of Women in Fiction, the,30, 40
- Heine, Heinrich,116 (n6)
- Hemingway, Ernest,121
- Hengshan, Jin,127
- Hengxun, Dong,126
- Herschel, Caroline,22
- Higonnet, Margaret,8, 216
- Representation of Women in Fiction, the,30, 40
- Hirsch, Marianne,31
- Hoffmann, Carl,49
- Holmes, Janet,159
- Hong Kong,37, 38
- Hopkins, James,171, 173
- Huber, Bettina J.,33
- Hui, Wang,147
- Hull, Gloria,34
- Humanities, the,9, 59, 110, 142, 148, 150, 155, 156, 165, 182, 197
- in China,129, 132, 135, 136, 137, 142, 147
- conflicts within,65, 149, 150
- in crisis,144, 186, 191
- digital,78, 79, 86, 88, 95
- purpose of,75, 142, 167
- in universities,66
- value of,143, 145, 186
- Hungary,37
- Hustvedt, Siri,70
- Huxley, Aldous,92
- Brave New World,92
- Hyman, Larry,56
I
- Ibadan, University of,47
- Igala language,49
- Igbirra-Ebira language,49
- Igbo,45
- India,16, 37
- Indigenous languages,5, 6, 7
- information technology,32, 76
- International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA),154, 156, 174
- International Association for Scandinavian Studies (IASS),174
- International Association of French Studies (AIEF),170
- International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE),59, 70, 72, 73, 74, 174
- membership structure,60, 73
- International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA),25, 26, 36, 37, 174
- and Committee on Gender Studies (CGS),36, 37, 38, 39, 41
- and gender studies,39
- publications of,49, 41
- International Council for Philosophy and the Humanities (CIPSH),4, 7, 12, 15, 156
- International Institute Charles Perrault, the (IICP),170
- International Mathematical Union, the,129
- International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa (ISOLA),174
- International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED),204
- internet, the,38, 74, 130
- data mining,79, 95
- literature available on,80
- in pedagogical contexts,78, 94, 95
- Wikipedia,175
- intersectionality,30, 35
- Inyatullah, Naeem,67
- Ishiguro, Kazuo,70
- Italian language,14, 160
J
- Jackson, Gabriele,29
- Jakobson, Roman,158
- James, King I of England,20, 21
- Japan,98, 101, 103, 110
- history of,99, 120, 131
- literature of,97, 101, 104, 215
- westernization of,99
- Japan Comparative Literature Association,97, 110
- Japan Society for Literature and Christianity,97, 110
- Jesus Christ,98, 104, 105, 106, 107, 110
- Jia, Chen,122
- Jide, Guo,126
- Jiande, Lu,124
- Jiang, Emily,80
- Jiang, Zhang,124
- Jinling University,121
- Jinping, Xi,133, 134
- Johnson, Barbara,28, 29
- Jones, Alex,201(n9)
- Jonson, Ben,20
- Journal of West African Languages (JWAL),48, 53, 54
- New Findings in West African Languages and Literature: In Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the West African Linguistic Society (WALS),53
- Juel, Dagny,72
- June 4 Incident,117, 133; see also: Tiananmen Square Massacre
- Jun, Eto,98
K
- Kamberi language,49
- Kasem language,51
- Kasprowicz, Jan,61
- Katsuhiko, Kimura,106
- Kawamoto, Koji,36
- Kazuya, Fukuda,100
- Keiichi, Sakuta,108
- King, Martin Luther,24
- Kirby, Ian,72
- Kirjallisuudentutkijain Seura (KTS),174
- Kiswahili language,43
- Koelle, S.W.,43
- Polyglotta Africana,43
- Kolodny, Annette,35
- Kongo language,43
- Korea,37
- Korean War,131
- Kuhn, Thomas,31
- Kunio, Ogawa,108
- Kwa languages,55
- Kyoto,26
L
- Lamnso’ language,55
- languages,150, 154
- acquisition of,152, 153, 154, 166
- classification of,44, 48
- versus dialects,44
- research challenges,55
- unknown or barely known,54
- languages and literatures3, 195, 199, 210, 212, 214, 218
- history of,3
- scholars of,4, 119, 195, 203, 206, 217
- studies of,7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 16, 31, 176, 205, 211, 213, 215
- Latin language,20
- learned societies,25, 32, 14, 148, 172, 182, 187
- Chinese,113, 114, 117, 128, 130, 138, 140
- communication between,86, 95, 155, 172
- official versus unofficial,139, 142, 146
- purpose of,36, 145, 149, 154, 168, 172, 173
- and social media,78, 171, 175, 177, 178, 179, 187, 191
- universities as,94
- versus “professional associations,”31, 172, 173
- websites of,175, 176, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 187, 191
- Ledefoged, Peter,49
- Le Goff, Jacques,63
- Lian, Chen,117
- Liberia,57
- Li, Cao,10, 214, 218
- Li, Jin,126
- Lindgren, Astrid,92
- Pippi Långstrump,92
- Lingala language,43
- linguistics,30, 44, 151, 154, 156, 161, 164
- history of,165
- issues in African language contexts,56, 216
- mentalist,56
- Saussurean,19
- Linguistic Society of America, the,129
- literature,60, 67, 73, 110, 158
- Chinese,82, 116, 119, 122
- Christian,97, 106, 108, 109, 110
- colonization and,61, 74
- comparative,38, 41, 97, 103, 109, 110, 126
- “as dialogue”,157
- English as “hypercentral”,85
- French,85
- historical changes in literary criticism,36
- Indian,74
- Japanese,97, 101, 104
- medieval,65
- North American,102, 106, 120, 122, 127
- perception of studies of,61
- peripheral and semi-peripheral,85
- purpose of,108
- Scandinavian,89
- South American,16
- Lobi language,53
- Lodge, David,60
- Ginger You are Barmy,60
- Los Angeles,39
- Luba language,43
- Lukács, Georg,124
- Lumsden, C,155
- Lushan, Huang,126
- Luther, Martin,66, 215
M
- de Man, Paul,40
- Marcus, Jane,28
- Marling, William,87, 91, 92
- Gate-keepers: The Emergence of World Literature and the 1960s,87, 91
- Mansu, Qian,126
- Marx, Karl,79
- Marxism,28, 81
- and literature scholarship,84
- Mauriac, Francois,98
- Mazanka, Włodzimierz,71, 72
- McCarthy, Dianne,173, 182
- McDowell, Deborah,29
- McEwan, Ian,70
- Solar,70
- Meek, Charles,44
- Meinhof, Carl,44
- Melzian, Hans,48
- Mesopotamia,84
- Mi, Wu,120
- Michitaro, Tada,103, 104
- Miller, Hillis,30, 124
- Miller, Nancy,28, 30
- Miner, Earl,36
- Mitchell, Margaret,92
- Gone With the Wind,92
- Mixed Game Model (MGM),159, 161, 163, 167
- Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA),169 (n1)
- Modern Language Association (MLA),25, 26, 27, 31, 41, 173, 174, 182, 209
- mission of,31
- Publications of the Modern Language Association (PMLA),33, 35
- and social movements,32
- and women,31, 40
- Modern Languages Quarterly (MLQ),124
- Moretti, Franco,79, 85, 91, 93
- Moore language,45
- Morimoto, Shin-Ichi,8, 9, 215
- Morocco,37
- Moruo, Guo,114
- Müller-Wood, Anja,157
- Multatuli,92
- Max Havelaar, of de Koffi-Veilingen der Nederlandsche Handel- Maatschappy,92
- Murakami, Haruki,99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 109
- Adventuring After a Sheep (Hitsuji wo Meguru Boken),99, 100
- Dance, Dance, Dance (Dansu Dansu Dansu),100
- A Dead Heat on the Merry-Go-Round (Kaitemmokuba no Deddo Hiito),101
- A Foreign Language Brings About Sorrow (Yagate Kanashiki Gaikokugo),101
- Killing a Commander (Kishidancho Goroshi),109
- 1Q84,102, 103
N
- Nanchang University,118
- Nanjing University,114 (n2), 116, 121, 122
- nationalism,12, 61, 119, 140, 144
- neoliberalism,140, 144, 145, 146, 186, 200, 217
- Netherlands, the,9, 94
- New Critics, the,28
- Newman, Paul,49
- Newton, Sir Isaac,22
- New York,27
- New York Times, the,26
- Nietzsche, Friedrich,67
- Nigeria,50, 52
- government policy on language learning,52
- languages of,51
- Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry from Spain,35
- Ning, Sheng,124
- Ning, Wang,124
- Nobel Prize for Literature, the,21, 35, 71, 81, 98, 99, 105, 121
- criticism of,82
- North America,8
- Norway,69, 70
- Nottingham, University of,17
- Novalis,116 (n6), 158
- Novi Sad,13
- Nü-Shu language,41
- Nussbaum, Martha147
- Nzema language,51
O
- Kenzaburo, Oe,99
- O’Neill, Eugene,126
- Online International Exchange (OIE),77, 79, 88, 90, 94, 95
- online platforms,10, 89, 91, 188, 217
- Onselen, Peter van,202
- Oosterbeek, Luiz,7
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),204
- Oslo,13
- Ostler, Nicholas,18
- Owen, Stephen,91, 93
P
- Palestinian Authority,207
- Pelz, Werner,203
- Plate, Liedeke,39
- Plato,143, 161
- Parker, Andrew,30
- Performativity and Performance,30
- Pennsylvania, University of,178
- Peyraube, A,136, 148
- Poe, Edgar Allan,106
- poetry,61, 158, 215
- Chinese,80, 81, 83, 126
- German,116 (n6)
- Old English,201
- Poland,59, 61
- politics of,72
- universities in,61, 62, 68, 69
- Politiken,190
- Poznań,59, 70, 71, 72, 74
- University of,69
- Poovey, Mary,30
- Portuguese language,14
- Posner, Miriam,88
- post-humanism,67, 149, 150, 167
- postmodernism,24, 36, 86, 149, 154, 157
- Prendergast, Christopher,82
- Preston, Alex,186
- Project Gutenberg,78
- Prudentius,65 (n30)
- Psychomachia,65 (n30)
- Przybyszewski, Stanisław,72
- Puerto Rico,37
Q
- Qishen, Yang,122
- Qisun, Ye,120
- queer studies,36, 38
R
- Radiguet, Raymond,99
- Rainbow Serpent, the4, 12
- Rands, Marc,173, 182
- Regensburg,14
- Reid, Alastair,187
- Renjing, Yang,121, 126
- Richards, I.A.,115 (n3)
- Rickert, Heinrich,103
- Rilke, Rainer Maria,116 (n6)
- Romania,37
- Rouault, Georges,98
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,64
- Rowland, Caroline,151
- Rowling, J.K.,92
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,92
- Royal Academy, the20
- Royal Society, the20, 22, 207
- Royal Society of Chemistry, the,129
- Royal Swedish Academy, the,21
- Russia,143, 213, 215
- Russian language,14
- Ryunosuke, Akutagawa,104, 105, 110
S
- Said, Edward,29, 30, 83, 212
- Literature and Society,29
- Orientalism,83
- Saussure, Ferdinand,59
- Scarry, Elaine,29
- Schiller, Friedrich,158
- scholarly organizations ,3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 75, 187, 210, 213, 215
- definitions of,11, 129, 207, 208, 209, 214
- and gender,26
- and pedagogy,9, 11, 196, 199, 212
- purpose of,216, 217
- and research,11, 211
- and social media,78, 171, 175, 177, 178, 179, 184, 185, 187
- websites of,175, 176, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 187
- Sedgwick, Eve,30
- Performativity and Performance,30
- Selden, John,20
- Sell, Roger,8, 60, 62, 71, 73, 157, 158, 159, 216, 217
- Ethics of Literary Communication, the,157
- Senoufo language,53
- Seoul,38
- Shakespeare, William,81, 85
- Shandong University,115, 116, 122
- Shanghai Foreign Literature Association,120
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University,119
- Shaw, George Bernard,71
- Shelley, Mary,92
- Frankenstein,92
- Shi, Hu,130
- Shusaku, Endo,98, 110
- Mr. Foolish (Obakasan),98
- Shuzo, Kuki,103
- Structure of Iki (Iki no Kozo),103
- Sichuan University,90, 94
- Sierra Leone,57
- Sikorska, Liliana,9, 217
- SIL International,54
- Silko, Leslie Marmon,28
- Simon, Herbert,150
- Sino-centrism,93
- Small, Helen,147
- social media,78, 94, 147, 170, 178, 184, 189
- Facebook,169 (n4), 175, 177, 178, 184, 189, 190, 191, 213
- Google+,177
- Instagram,177
- Skype,89, 91, 93
- Twitter,169 (n4), 175, 177, 178, 184
- WeChat,78, 89, 91, 121(n12), 177
- Whatsapp,78
- Yahoo Groups,177
- Youtube,177
- Société Linguistique de Paris (SLP),55
- Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE),26
- Socrates,104, 143, 144, 161
- Spanish language,14
- Spencer, John,43
- Spillers, Hortense,29
- Spratt, Thomas,22
- Spurlin, William,39
- Stimpson, Catharine,29, 30
- Sturlusson, Snorri,200
- Survey of West African Languages,45, 46, 49
- Swahili language,50
- Sweden ,9, 21, 94
- Szreter, Simon,187, 188
T
- Tadadjeu, Maurice,50
- Taiwo, Oye,53
- Tao, Xue (薛涛),80, 81
- Tan, Amy,92
- Joy Luck Club, the,92
- Tennyson, Lord Alfred,21
- Tera language,49
- Tetsuro, Watsuji,109
- Climate (Fudo),109
- Tetsuzo, Tanikawa,109
- Thomas, M Carey,32
- Tiananmen Square Massacre,117, 133; see also: June 4 Incident
- Tianjin University,124
- Times Higher Education,144
- Tokarczuk, Olga,71
- Tolkien, JRR,2, 3
- translation,9, 20, 37, 86, 95
- from Chinese to English,80
- from English to Japanese,102
- and gender,39
- in Israeli book market,86
- of poetry,82
- in Portuguese book market,85
- reliability,80, 84, 215
- translational “flows”,91, 93
- untranslatability,84
- and “world literature”,83
- Translating Women,37
- Tranströmer, Tomas,82
- Trump, Donald,144, 146
- Tsinghua University,120
- Twi language,43
U
- Ukraine,213
- United Nations Economic Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO),4, 13, 47, 55, 140, 147, 213
- and funding ,11, 15, 55, 207
- United Nations, the,6, 52 (n20)
- United States of America,11, 101, 106, 121, 207
- and China,12, 122, 125, 126, 144
- universities,2, 9, 196, 198, 205, 206
- as dedicated to the pursuit of truth,59
- funding of,18, 61, 197, 198
- history of,62, 68
- the humanities and,66, 75, 204
- in the middle ages,63, 68
- neoliberal practices in,146, 206, 217
- Uppsala University,90, 94
V
- Van Delft, Louis,170
- Van der Schalk, Henriette Roland Holst,81
- Vendler, Helen,27, 28, 30
- Victoria University,199
- Vienna, University of,7, 213
- Völuspá (“Song of the Seeress”),3
W
- Waters, Roger,200
- Weigand, Edda,10, 216
- Wells, David A,169, 185, 186
- Welmers, William,43
- West Africa,45, 54
- countries of,46
- languages of,45
- universities of,54
- West African Language Data Sheets,49
- West African Linguistic Society (WALS),7, 8, 46, 49, 50, 54, 174
- Congresses of,45, 46, 47, 48, 53, 55, 57
- constitution of,46
- goals of,46, 49, 57, 58
- projects undertaken,49, 50, 58
- research by,50, 55, 56
- working groups of,47
- Western canon,29, 81, 83, 196
- authorship of,85
- challenges to,29, 30, 196
- Westermann, Diedrich,44
- Whatever,39
- White, Hayden,27
- Whitman, Walt,126
- Wilde, Oscar,99, 106
- Williamson, Kay,48
- Wilson, Edward O.,155, 161, 168
- Wimsatt, W. K.,27
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig,153
- Wolof language,45
- Woolf, Virginia,28
- World literature (Weltliteratur),34, 73, 76, 81, 84, 91
- Chinese scholars and translators of,118
- definitions of,91, 93
- Goethe’s concept of,83, 84, 85
- as Western-centric,82, 215
- World War I,52 (n20)
- World War II,32, 44, 99, 121
X
- Xianlin, Ji,117
- Xiaoping, Deng,114, 121, 132, 133
- Xingguo, Ye,120
- Xingjian, Gao,82
Y
- Yacouba language,53
- Yale University,27
- Yeats, WB,11
- Yeazell, Ruth,30
- Sex, Politics and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Novel,30
- Yoruba language,45, 55
- Young, Liza,31
- Youssef , Magdi,21
- Yuanren, Zhao,120
- Yu, Lu,80
- Yuka, Lendzemo Constantine,7, 8, 53, 216
- Yukio, Mishima,99, 108
- Yuko, Tsushima,98
Z
- Zabus, Chantal,37
- Zedong, Mao,117, 131, 132
- Zhejiang University,124
- Zhi, Feng,115
- Zhongyi, Chen,118, 119
- Zhouhan, Yang,117, 122
- Zuao, Mei,120
- Zuckerberg, Mark,191
- Zuoliang, Wang,117, 122
- Zurich, University of,32
