Call for Book Chapters: Emerging Trends and Future Directions in Comparative Literature

In a globalized world, cultural hybridity has become a defining characteristic of literary and artistic expression. Adaptation and translation serve as key vehicles for this hybridity, allowing ideas to travel, evolve, and find new meanings across cultural contexts. Comparative literature scholars increasingly focus on how hybrid forms of storytelling—where traditions blend and identities intersect—reveal the complexities of global communication. Adaptations of literary works across languages, media, or cultural backgrounds highlight both the universality and specificity of human experience. Translation, in this sense, is not merely linguistic transfer but a creative act of cultural negotiation. This section welcomes contributions that examine cultural hybridity through literature, film, performance, and digital art. How do hybrid texts challenge notions of authenticity and originality? How does translation act as a form of creative resistance or adaptation? By analyzing these inter...

Globalization has revolutionized the circulation of texts, ideas, and cultures, making comparative literature more global than ever. Literary works now cross borders instantaneously, and readers engage with multiple cultures simultaneously. This interconnectedness fosters a rich tapestry of cultural exchange, where hybrid identities and shared narratives emerge. Comparative literature serves as a critical space to examine how globalization influences literary production and reception. Writers from the Global South are gaining new platforms, translation practices are expanding, and multicultural perspectives are reshaping the literary canon. Yet, globalization also raises questions about homogenization, cultural dominance, and the loss of local voices. This theme invites chapters that analyze the dynamic relationship between globalization and literature. How do global networks impact the themes, genres, and languages of literary expression? What role do translation, migration, and dia...