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Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction ( Jane Hiddleston, Exeter College, University of Oxford, UK, and Wen-chin Ouyang, SOAS, U niversity of London, UK ) -- Part I Multilingualism and modes of reading -- 1. Writing in the presence of the languages of the world: Language, literature and world in Édouard Glissant's late theoretical works ( Jane Hiddleston, Exeter College, University of Oxford, UK) -- 2. (Sino)graphs in Franco(n)texts: The multilingual and the multimodal in Franco-Chinese literature and visual arts (Shuangyi Li, Lund University, Sweden) -- 3. A 'boundless creative ferocity': The 'souffles' generation, Moroccan poetry and visual art in dialogue ( Khalid Lyamlahy, The University of Chicago, USA) -- 4. The multi/heterolingual zone: Arabic, English and the practice of worldliness (Claire Gallien, University Paul Valřy Montpellier 3 and CNRS, France) -- Part II A multilingual ecology of world literature and modes of circulation -- 5. 'O local sen paredes': The multilingual ecology of Manuel Rivas's A desaparición da neve ( The Disappearance of Snow ) (Laura Lonsdale, The Queen's College, University of Oxford, UK) -- 6. Monolingualising the multilingual Ottoman novel: Ahmet Midhat Efendi's Felatun Bey ile Rakim Efendi (Keya Anjaria, SOAS, U niversity of London, UK ) -- 7. Thinking in French and writing in Spanish: Rubň Darío's multilingualism (Carlos A. Frigsby, University of Oxford, UK) -- 8. Multilingual maelström: Primo Levi's 'Canto of Ulysses' (Dominique Jullien, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Part III Multilingual comparative reading: Beyond translation and untranslatability -- 9. Ghetto, Nakba, Holocaust: New terms (of relationship) in Elias Khoury's Awlad al-Gh itu (Nora E. Parr, SOAS, University of London, UK) -- 10. Multilingual others: Transliteration as resistant translation (Dima Ayoub, Middlebury College, USA) -- 11. Hauntological versions in Isabel del Río's bilingual Zero Negative/Cero Negativo (Ellen Jones,