Neil Lazarus is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. Previous books include Combined and Uneven Development: Towards A New Theory of World Literature (2015), The Postcolonial Unconscious (2011), Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies (2004), Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies (2002), Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World (1999) and Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction (1990).

Introduction: The world-literary system and the Atlantic

Neil Lazarus and Sorcha Gunne

1. The world-literary system and the Atlantic: Combined and uneven development - an interview with Stephen Shapiro

Neil Lazarus

2. Three early modern genres: A microhistorical approach to "world literature"

William Boelhower

3. Contesting slavery in the global market: John Brown's Slave Life in Georgia

Michael J. Drexler and Stephanie Scherer

4. On transnational analogy: Thinking race and caste with W. E. B. Du Bois and Rabindranath Tagore

Yogita Goyal

5. "Time's carcase": Waste, labour, and finance capital in the Atlantic world-ecology

Michael Niblett

6. From the Novela de la Caña to Junot Díaz's "cake-eater": World-literature, the world-food-system and the Dominican Republic

Kerstin Oloff

7. Water shocks: Neoliberal hydrofiction and the crisis of "cheap water"

Sharae Deckard

8. From fishery limits to limits to capital: Gendered appropriation and spectres of North Atlantic fishery collapse in The Silver Darlings and Sylvanus Now

Michael Paye

9. Feminist politics and semiperipheral poetics: Eavan Boland and Aislinn Hunter

Sorcha Gunne