Acknowledgments Notes on Transliteration, Translation, and Dates Introduction: Decolonizing a Peripheral Literature Amirhossein Vafa (Shiraz University, Iran), Omid Azadibougar (Hunan Normal University, China), and Mostafa Abedinifard (University of British Columbia, Canada) Part One. Literary Worldliness 1. The Birth of the German Ghazal out of the Spirit of World Literature Amir Irani-Tehrani (West Point Military Academy, USA) 2. Otherworld Literature: Parahuman Pasts in Classical Persian Historiography and Epic Sam Lasman (University of Chicago, USA) 3. Globalization in Pre- and Postrevolutionary Iranian Literature: A Comparative Study of Authors inside and outside Iran Naghmeh Esmaeilpour (Humboldt University, Germany) 4. Contemporary Persian Literature and Digital Humanities Laetitia Nanquette (University of New South Wales, Australia) Part Two. Traveling Texts 5. Genres without Borders: Reading Modern Iranian Literature beyond Center and Periphery Marie Ostby (Connecticut College, USA) 6. Persian Epistemes in Naim Frasheri's Albanian Poetry Abdulla Rexhepi (University of Prishtina, Kosovo) 7. Ecumenism and Globalism in the Reception of Ferdowsi and His Shahnameh: Evidence from the Baysonqori Preface Olga M. Davidson (Boston University, USA) 8. Cats and Dogs, Manliness, and Misogyny: On the Sindbad-nameh as World Literature Alexandra Hoffmann (University of Chicago, USA) 9. Cinema Joins Forces with Literature to Form Canon: The Cinematic Afterlife of Sa'edi's The Cow as World Literature Adineh Khojastehpour (University of New South Wales, Australia) Part Three. The Transnational Turn 10. Until a Shirt Blossoms Red: Proto-Third Worldism in Ahmad Shamlou's Manifesto Levi Thompson (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) 11. Translocal Dreams of Justice and Mobility: Fariba Vafi's Tarlan and Ali Mirdrekvandi's No Heaven for Gunga Din Gay Jennifer Breyley (Monash University, Australia) 12. The Purloined Letter: Reconsidering Simin Daneshvar's Dagh-e Nang and the Politics of Translation in the Landscape of World Literature Amy Motlagh (University of California Davis, USA) 13. World Literature as Persian Literature Navid Naderi (Independent Scholar, Iran) Notes on Contributors Index