What is it about?

It tells us the ideas behind the founding of a journal about world literature in light of a shared experience of growing up in the post-Revolution Iran.

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Why is it important?

It stresses the importance of world literature as a window into our present global world.

Perspectives

The journal is the result of three years of planning and networking among us and the established literary scholars across the world.

Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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This page is a summary of: JWL: From Persian to World Literature, Journal of World Literature, January 2016, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/24056480-00101002.
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