(World) Literature: Beneath and Beyond
Zhang Longxi
City University of Hong Kong
Page 065-071
Abstract: In this interview, Zhang Longxi explores topics and approaches that have made him one of the leading scholars on cross-cultural studies in the world. Longxi’s innovative understanding of both the relationship between East and West and literary hermeneutics is clarified in his latest contribution, World Literature as Discovery: Expanding the World Literary Canon, which aims at suggesting that world literature may favor a productive way to return to the reading of literature.
Keywords: world literature, Eurocentrism, non-hegemonic literary traditions, globalization
DOI: 10.53397/hunnu.jflc.202301007